Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 50
Kill the lad, and sprinkle his blood like water!"
Who acts: you · What happens: kill, sprinkle · To what, where: lad, blood
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kill | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprinkle | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sprinkle | cc |
| 6 | sprinkle | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kill | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 blood | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprinkle | obj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprinkle | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | imperative | you not said here | the lad | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sprinkle | infinitive | you not said here | lad's blood | like water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=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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