Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 133

But the crab cut through its neck as clean as one would cut a lotus-stalk with a hunting-knife, and then only entered the water!

Who acts: one · What happens: cut, enter · To what, where: crab, lotus stalk, water

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 (one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 clean	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crab	det
3	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clean	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 crab	acl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 clean	advmod
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 cut	mark
11	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cut	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	aux
13	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 clean	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stalk	det
15	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stalk	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 lotus	punct
17	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 knife	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 knife	det
20	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knife	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 hunting	punct
22	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 entered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 entered	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 entered	advmod
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 entered	advmod
27	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 entered	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 clean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle		the crab not said here		through pond's neck	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through neck=Patient
2	cut	would	one	a lotus stalk		with a hunting knife	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Patient with knife=Instrument
3	enter	past	one not said here	the water	then		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination

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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