Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 73

This is what you must do; as soon as the child is born you must send him away to a cellar underneath the ground, and never let him see the light of day for twelve years.

Who acts: This, you, child · What happens: be, do, bear, send away, not let, see · To what, where: child, light, day

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 (This, you, child), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 what	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 what	acl:relcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 send	punct
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 send	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 born	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 born	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 born	aux:pass
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 soon	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 send	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 send	aux
17	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 what	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 send	obj
19	away	away	ADV	_	17 send	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 cellar	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cellar	det
22	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 send	obl
23	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cellar	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 let	cc
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 let	advmod
29	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 what	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	obj
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 light	det
33	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 day	case
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 light	nmod
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 years	case
37	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 years	nummod
38	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 see	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This				tree rules
2	do	must	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bear	present · passive		the child			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	send away	must	you	child		to a cellar underneath the ground; away, soon property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	not let	infinitive		child			tree rules
6	see	infinitive	child not said here	the light of day	year		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
7	light			day			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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