Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 79
But it would not go away without showing its gratitude: "Oh, life of my life!
Who acts: animal · What happens: not go away, show · To what, where: gratitude
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 (animal), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 showing | mark |
| 8 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 go | advcl |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 10 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showing | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 life | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 life | punct |
| 13 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 life | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Oh | punct |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go away | would | animal | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | gerund | animal not said here | animal's gratitude | life of my life obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Recipient |
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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