Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 113

"The storm beats fierce and loud, The clouds rise thick in the west; What ails thy grave and shroud, Oh corpse! that thou canst not rest?"

Who acts: storm, clouds, thou · What happens: beat, rise, ail, not rest · To what, where: west, grave, corpse

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 (storm, clouds, thou), 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	_	4 beats	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 storm	det
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beats	nsubj
4	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beats	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 loud	cc
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fierce	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rise	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clouds	det
10	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rise	nsubj
11	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 beats	conj
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rise	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 west	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 west	det
15	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rise	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 ails	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 ails	nsubj
18	ails	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 beats	conj
19	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 grave	nmod:poss
20	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ails	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shroud	cc
22	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grave	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 corpse	punct
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	25 corpse	discourse
25	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rest	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 corpse	punct
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 rest	obl
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 rest	nsubj
29	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	31 rest	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 rest	advmod
31	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ails	conj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 beats	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 beats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beat in a quote	present	the storm			fierce property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise in a quote	present	the clouds		the west	thick property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in west=Location
3	ail in a quote	present		thy grave and shroud			vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient grave=Experiencer
4	not rest in a quote	can	thou	corpse		that obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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