Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 34
If I take him out he may make me the first morsel of his hungry mouth.
Who acts: I, Gangazara · What happens: take out, make · To what, where: Gangazara, me
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 (I, Gangazara), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 take | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 take | compound:prt |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morsel | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 morsel | amod |
| 12 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mouth | amod |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 morsel | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out a condition, not said to happen | present | I | Gangazara | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | may | Gangazara | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product |
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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