Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 2
[Plates, vignettes, initials, and cuts are from "process" blocks supplied by Messrs.
Who acts: cuts · What happens: be, supply · To what, where: process blocks
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 (cuts), 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 | _ | 2 Plates | punct |
| 2 | Plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vignettes | punct |
| 4 | vignettes | vignette | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Plates | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 initials | punct |
| 6 | initials | initial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Plates | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blocks | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blocks | cc |
| 9 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 blocks | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 blocks | cop |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 blocks | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 process | punct |
| 13 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blocks | compound |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 process | punct |
| 15 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Plates | conj |
| 16 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 blocks | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Messrs | case |
| 18 | Messrs | messr | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 supplied | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Plates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | cuts | process blocks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | supply | participle | process blocks not said here | by Messrs | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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