Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 42
I shall never forget this day, when I regained my life through your kind hands.
Who acts: I · What happens: not forget, regain · To what, where: life, kind hands
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 forget | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 forget | advmod |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forget | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 regained | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 regained | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 regained | nsubj |
| 10 | regained | regain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | parataxis |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 regained | obj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 hands | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hands | amod |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 regained | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | shall | I | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | regain | past | I | my life | your kind hands | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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