Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 19
"A service have we done thee To the best of our ability, King of the Beasts!
What happens: do · To what, where: service
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 service | det |
| 3 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 done | obj |
| 8 | To | to | ADP | _ | 10 best | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 best | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 done | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ability | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ability | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ability | ability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 best | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 King | punct |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ability | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Beasts | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Beasts | det |
| 18 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 King | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a service | to the best | 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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