Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 112
"Look here, friend, you won't be able to hold me tight enough; but we crabs have a famous grip.
Who acts: you, we, crabs · What happens: look, not be, hold, crab, have · To what, where: fellow, famous grip
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 (you, we, crabs), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Look | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 8 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 able | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Look | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hold | mark |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hold | obj |
| 15 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 13 hold | advmod |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 tight | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 crabs | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 crabs | nsubj |
| 20 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 grip | det |
| 23 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grip | amod |
| 24 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | here | friend vocative | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not is in a quote | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | fellow | tight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | crab in a quote | we | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | crabs | a famous grip | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grip=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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