Indian Fairy Tales, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed., sentence 7
Child, _Eng. and Scotch Ballads_, i. 485; see also Benfey, _Kl.
Who acts: Child · What happens: scotch, see · To what, where: Ballads, Benfey
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Scotch | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Eng | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Eng | punct |
| 4 | Eng | Eng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Child | appos |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Child | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Scotch | cc |
| 7 | Scotch | scotch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Scotch | obj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Scotch | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 i. | punct |
| 11 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Scotch | obj |
| 12 | 485 | 485 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 i. | flat |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Scotch | conj |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 Benfey | advmod |
| 16 | Benfey | Benfey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 _ | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Benfey | appos |
| 19 | Kl | Kl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 _ | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Scotch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scotch | infinitive | Child | Ballads | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Child not said here | Benfey | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer benfey=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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