Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 51

The snake went down: when he returned he said, "You have a Rakshas in your stomach, but if you will let me cut you open, it will come out of you." "

Who acts: snake, Majnun, You, Rakshas · What happens: go down, return, say, have, let, cut · To what, where: Rakshas, stomach, Majnun, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (snake, Majnun, You, Rakshas), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 returned	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 returned	nsubj
8	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Rakshas	det
16	Rakshas	Rakshas	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 stomach	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stomach	nmod:poss
19	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 let	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 let	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 let	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 let	aux
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	parataxis
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 cut	obj
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cut	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
34	out	out	ADP	_	36 you	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 come	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the snake				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	return	past	Majnun				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Majnun				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	You	a Rakshas	your stomach		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rakshas=Patient
5	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	Majnun			tree rules
6	cut in a quote	infinitive	Majnun not said here	you		open property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
7	come out in a quote	future	Rakshas	you			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result

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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