Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 109
How can I cut that thick tree-trunk in two with a wax hatchet?"
Who acts: I, that · What happens: cut, trunk · To what, where: two
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 (I, that), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 cut | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 trunk | nsubj |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trunk | amod |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trunk | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 tree | punct |
| 9 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 two | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cut | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hatchet | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hatchet | det |
| 14 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hatchet | compound |
| 15 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | can | I | two | with a wax hatchet | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with hatchet=Instrument | |||
| 2 | trunk | that | 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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