Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 87

"Not at all!" swore the tiger with many oaths; "on the contrary, I should be for ever grateful, and serve you as a slave!"

Who acts: all, friend · What happens: swear, be, serve · To what, where: tiger, contrary, you

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, friend), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 swore	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 all	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 swore	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
7	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tiger	det
9	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swore	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 oaths	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 oaths	amod
12	oaths	oath	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tiger	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 grateful	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 grateful	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 contrary	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 contrary	det
17	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grateful	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 contrary	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 grateful	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 grateful	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 grateful	cop
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 grateful	case
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 grateful	advmod
24	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 swore	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 serve	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 serve	cc
27	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 swore	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 serve	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 slave	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 slave	det
31	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 serve	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 swore	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 swore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	all	the tiger			with many oaths	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Eventuality
2	is in a quote	should	my friend = friend		the contrary	ever	grateful property	tree rules
3	serve in a quote	present	all not said here	you			as a slave	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Duration as slave=Attribute

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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