Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 18

There was not a morsel in his hand to eat; nor a drop of water to drink.

Who acts: morsel · What happens: not be, eat, drink · To what, where: drop

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morsel), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 morsel	det
5	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 morsel	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hand	acl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 drop	punct
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 drop	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 drop	det
14	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 water	case
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drop	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 drink	mark
18	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 drop	acl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not be	past	a morsel in morsel's hand	a drop of water	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	a morsel in morsel's hand not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	to-infinitive	a morsel in morsel's hand not said here	a drop of water not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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