Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 123

"Ah! those fishes got eaten through their own stupidity," answered the crab; "but I'm not going to let you eat _me_.

Who acts: crab, you · What happens: eat, answer, not go, let · To what, where: fishes, own stupidity, crab, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (crab, you), 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	_	7 eaten	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 eaten	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 fishes	det
5	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eaten	nsubj:pass
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux:pass
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 answered	advcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 stupidity	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 stupidity	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stupidity	amod
11	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eaten	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crab	det
16	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answered	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 going	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
21	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 going	advmod
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 answered	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 let	mark
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 going	iobj
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past · passive		that fishes		fish's own stupidity	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	answer speech: express	past	the crab				tree rules
3	not go in a quote	present · progressive	the crab = crab		the crab = crab		tree rules
4	let in a quote	to-infinitive	the crab = crab not said here	you			tree rules
5	eat in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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