Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 25
"Ungrateful, doing no good, Not doing as he would be done by, In him there is no gratitude, To serve him is useless.
Who acts: Ungrateful · What happens: do, not do, do by, serve, be · To what, where: good, Crane
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 (Ungrateful), 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 Ungrateful | punct |
| 2 | Ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 useless | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Ungrateful | conj |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 good | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 doing | punct |
| 8 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 doing | advmod |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 doing | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 done | aux:pass |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 doing | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 done | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 17 | In | in | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 is | obl |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 useless | cop |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 gratitude | det |
| 22 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 useless | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 serve | punct |
| 24 | To | to | PART | _ | 25 serve | mark |
| 25 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 gratitude | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 serve | obj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 useless | cop |
| 28 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 useless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | gerund | Ungrateful not said here | no good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | gerund | Ungrateful not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do by in a quote | would · passive | Crane | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | to-infinitive | Crane | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Ungrateful | useless property | 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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