Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 167
Then they all sighed to think of the tender little morsel they had let slip.
Who acts: pa, tender little morsel · What happens: sigh, think, let · To what, where: pa
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 (pa, tender little morsel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sighed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sighed | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 morsel | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 morsel | det |
| 9 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 morsel | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 morsel | amod |
| 11 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 morsel | acl:relcl |
| 15 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | pa | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | pa not said here | of the tender little morsel | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | let | past · perfect · passive | the tender little morsel not said here | pa | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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