Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 90

What is to prevent my eating you now, for after being cooped up so long I am just terribly hungry!"

Who acts: my, I · What happens: be, eat, coop up · To what, where: 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 (my, 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 prevent	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prevent	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	4 prevent	mark
4	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eating	nsubj
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 prevent	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 eating	obj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 prevent	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cooped	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 cooped	mark
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 cooped	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 cooped	aux:pass
13	cooped	coop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 hungry	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 cooped	compound:prt
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 cooped	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 hungry	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hungry	cop
19	just	just	ADV	_	21 hungry	advmod
20	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	21 hungry	advmod
21	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prevent	parataxis
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 hungry	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present			now	prevent property	tree rules
2	eat	gerund	my	you			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	coop up	gerund · passive	I not said here			long property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»
4	is	present	I			hungry, terribly property	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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