Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 133
The Jackal thought this reasonable, and let Lambikin pass.
Who acts: Jackal, Lambikin · What happens: think, let, pass · To what, where: Lambikin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jackal, Lambikin), 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 Jackal | det |
| 2 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 reasonable | nsubj |
| 5 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Jackal | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Lambikin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | infinitive | Lambikin not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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