Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 43

I ate one, and it was the nicest I have ever tasted."

Who acts: I, grave · What happens: eat, be, taste · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grave), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ate	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nicest	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nicest	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nicest	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nicest	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nicest	det
9	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 ate	parataxis
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tasted	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tasted	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 tasted	advmod
13	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 nicest	parataxis
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	I	one			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	is	past	grave			nice property	tree rules
3	taste	present · perfect	I		ever		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/43/