Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 12

He will squeeze them and gather water for drink! and the bread and sweetmeats shall form his food."

Who acts: passage, bread · What happens: squeeze, gather, form · To what, where: bits, water, food

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passage, bread), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 squeeze	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 squeeze	aux
3	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 squeeze	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gather	cc
6	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 squeeze	conj
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gather	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 drink	case
9	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gather	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 squeeze	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 form	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bread	det
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 form	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sweetmeats	cc
15	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bread	conj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 form	aux
17	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 squeeze	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 food	nmod:poss
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 form	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 squeeze	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 squeeze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	squeeze	future	passage	bits = bit		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	gather	infinitive	passage not said here	water	for drink	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Theme for drink=Beneficiary
3	form	shall	the bread and sweetmeats	passage's food		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=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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