Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 86
Now, if there should be a famine, I should certainly make a hundred rupees by it.
Who acts: I · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 make | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 be | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 be | expl |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 famine | det |
| 8 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 be | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 be | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 12 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 make | advmod |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hundred | det |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 rupees | nummod |
| 16 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should · infinitive | I | now | by famine; certainly, make property | 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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