Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 9
The crane seeing him, as he was perched on a tree looking for food, asked, "What ails thee, friend?"
Who acts: crane, tree · What happens: see, perch, look, ask, ail · To what, where: throat, tree, thee · 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, tree), 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 | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 crane | acl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seeing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 perched | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 perched | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 perched | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 perched | aux:pass |
| 9 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seeing | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 perched | obl |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 tree | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 crane | punct |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ails | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 ails | punct |
| 20 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 ails | nsubj |
| 21 | ails | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 ails | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 friend | punct |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ails | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 ails | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 ails | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the crane not said here | throat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | perch | past · passive | throat | a tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on tree=Destination | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | a tree not said here | for food | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the crane | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | ail in a quote | present | thee | friend obl | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient thou=Experiencer |
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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