Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 85
It's eating us, one after the other, that you're aiming at."
Who acts: world, you · What happens: eat, aim · To what, where: us
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 (world, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eating | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eating | aux |
| 3 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 eating | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eating | parataxis |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 other | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 aiming | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 aiming | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 aiming | nsubj |
| 13 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 aiming | aux |
| 14 | aiming | aim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 eating | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 aiming | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eating | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 eating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · progressive | world | us | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 2 | aim | present · progressive | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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