Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 4
Then I get up, and give her such a kick with my foot."
Who acts: I · What happens: get up, give · To what, where: kick, wife
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 get | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 get | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 give | cc |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 kick | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 kick | det |
| 11 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foot | nmod:poss |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | present | I | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | I not said here | such kick | wife | with my foot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kick=Theme |
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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