Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 124
On the contrary, is it _you_ that I am going to destroy.
Who acts: contrary, I · What happens: be, go, destroy · To what, where: contrary
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 (contrary, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 contrary | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 contrary | det |
| 3 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 _ | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrary | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 _ | cop |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 _ | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 _ | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 _ | nsubj |
| 9 | _ | _ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 going | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 _ | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 destroy | mark |
| 15 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 going | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | contrary | the contrary | _ property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | destroy | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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