Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 55

You can place more faith in me, a tiger, though I feast sometimes upon men, in a serpent, whose sting makes your blood cold the very next moment, or in a rat, which does a thousand pieces of mischief in your house.

Who acts: I, sting, rat · What happens: feast, make, do · To what, where: men, serpent, blood, thousand pieces, house

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, sting, rat), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 faith	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 faith	aux
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faith	compound
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 faith	amod
5	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 faith	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tiger	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tiger	det
10	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faith	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feast	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 feast	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 feast	nsubj
14	feast	feast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 faith	conj
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 men	advmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 men	case
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feast	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 serpent	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 serpent	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 serpent	det
21	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feast	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 makes	punct
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 sting	nmod:poss
24	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 makes	nsubj
25	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 serpent	acl:relcl
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 blood	nmod:poss
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 makes	obj
28	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 makes	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 moment	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 next	advmod
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 moment	amod
32	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cold	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rat	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 rat	cc
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 rat	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 rat	det
37	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 moment	appos
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 does	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 does	nsubj
40	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 rat	parataxis
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 pieces	det
42	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 pieces	nummod
43	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 does	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 mischief	case
45	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pieces	nmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 house	case
47	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 house	nmod:poss
48	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 does	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 faith	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feast	present	I	men	a serpent		tree rules
2	make	present	sting	your blood		cold property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blood=Product
3	do	present	a rat	a thousand pieces of mischief	your house		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality

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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