Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 101
It was a very, very thick trunk.
Who acts: trunk · What happens: be · To what, where: thick trunk
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trunk), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trunk | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trunk | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 trunk | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 thick | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 very | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 thick | advmod |
| 7 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trunk | amod |
| 8 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | trunk | a thick trunk | 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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