Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 126
I am sure you are a Rakshas or a demon come to eat me," and he was in great terror.
Who acts: I, you, Majnun · What happens: be, come, eat · To what, where: Rakshas, me, great terror
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Majnun), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 Rakshas | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Rakshas | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Rakshas | det |
| 7 | Rakshas | Rakshas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 demon | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 demon | det |
| 10 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Rakshas | conj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 terror | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 terror | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 terror | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 terror | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 terror | amod |
| 22 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a Rakshas or a demon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | Majnun | great terror | tree rules |
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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