Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 104
"I'll bite hold of you with my beak."
Who acts: crane · What happens: bite, hold · To what, where: hold, you
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crane), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bite | aux |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bite | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hold | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 beak | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beak | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bite | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite in a quote | future | the crane = crane | hold of you | with my beak | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hold=Patient with beak=Instrument | |||
| 2 | hold in a quote | you | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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