Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 18
The crane thinking "I will sound him," settled on a branch just over him, and in conversation spoke this first verse:
Who acts: crane, I · What happens: think, sound, settle, speak · To what, where: Crane, first verse, conversation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crane, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crane | det |
| 2 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 crane | acl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sound | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sound | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sound | aux |
| 7 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thinking | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sound | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 settled | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 settled | punct |
| 11 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 sound | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 branch | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 branch | det |
| 14 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 settled | obl |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 him | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 settled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoke | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spoke | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 conversation | case |
| 21 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoke | obl |
| 22 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 verse | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 verse | amod |
| 25 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoke | obj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the crane not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sound in a quote | future | the crane = crane | Crane | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | settle | participle | I not said here | over bone; on a branch | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on branch=Topic | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | the crane | this first verse | conversation | tree rules |
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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