Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 30
May not, asks Mr. Batten, the _Pancavudha Jataka_ be an idealised account of an eclipse of the moon?
Who acts: Pancavudha · What happens: not ask, idealise, be, eclipse · To what, where: Batten, idealised account, moon
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pancavudha), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 asks | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 asks | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Batten | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Batten | Batten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 account | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 account | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Pancavudha | punct |
| 10 | Pancavudha | Pancavudha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 account | nsubj |
| 11 | Jataka | Jataka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pancavudha | flat |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 account | punct |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 account | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 account | det |
| 15 | idealised | idealise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 account | amod |
| 16 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Batten | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 eclipse | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 eclipse | det |
| 19 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 account | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 moon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moon | det |
| 22 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eclipse | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | may | Batten Mr. | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent batten=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | idealise | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | Pancavudha | the idealised account | of a eclipse of the moon | tree rules | |||
| 4 | eclipse | the moon | nom eclipse «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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