Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 110

"There is no one here, nor far nor near, Save this breathless corpse so cold and grim; Would God he might come to life again, 'Twould be less lonely to talk to him."

Who acts: one, you, God · What happens: be, save, come, talk · To what, where: breathless corpse, life, God

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 (one, you, God), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Save	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 is	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 far	punct
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 far	cc
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 is	advmod
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 near	cc
11	near	near	ADV	_	9 far	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Save	punct
13	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 corpse	det
15	breathless	breathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 corpse	amod
16	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Save	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 cold	advmod
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 corpse	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grim	cc
20	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cold	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
22	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
23	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 come	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Save	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 life	case
28	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
29	again	again	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lonely	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 lonely	punct
32	Twould	twould	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 lonely	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 lonely	cop
34	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 lonely	advmod
35	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 come	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 talk	mark
37	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 lonely	advcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 talk	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Save	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	no one			here; there		far property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save in a quote	imperative	you not said here	this breathless corpse					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme
3	come in a quote	might	God			life	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
4	is in a quote							less, lonely property	tree rules
5	talk in a quote	to-infinitive			God				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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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