Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 121

Now cast your eye upon the heap of fish-bones lying at the root of yonder Varana-tree.

Who acts: you, fish bones · What happens: cast, lie · To what, where: eye, heap, root

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, fish bones), 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	2 cast	advmod
2	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eye	nmod:poss
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cast	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 heap	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heap	det
7	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cast	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bones	case
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bones	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 fish	punct
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heap	nmod
12	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bones	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 root	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 root	det
15	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lying	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 tree	case
17	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	20 tree	advmod
18	Varana	Varana	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tree	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Varana	punct
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 root	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	imperative	you not said here	your eye		the heap of fish bones	now		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon heap=Destination
2	lie	gerund	fish bones not said here			the root of Varana tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at root=Location

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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