Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 100
Give one thought To my life just begun!"
Who acts: you · What happens: give, begin · To what, where: one thought, life
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thought | nummod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 4 | To | to | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obl |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 begun | advmod |
| 8 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Give | advcl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | one thought | my life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Theme to life=Recipient | |||
| 2 | begin | participle | you not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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