Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 108
I'll hold you quite tight all the way."
Who acts: I · What happens: hold · To what, where: 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hold | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | aux |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hold | obj |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 tight | advmod |
| 6 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hold | xcomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 way | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | future | I | you | all way obl:unmarked; tight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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