Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 122
Just as I have eaten those fish, every one of them, just so I will devour you as well!"
Who acts: I · What happens: eat, devour · To what, where: fish, 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 eaten | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eaten | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 devour | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 devour | advmod |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 devour | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 devour | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 devour | aux |
| 18 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eaten | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 devour | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 18 devour | advmod |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 devour | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 devour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · perfect | I | that fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | devour | future | I | you | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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