Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 2

"On earth I was even as thou, My turban awry like a king, My head with the highest, I trow, Having my fun and my fling, Fighting my foes like a brave, Living my life with a swing.

Who acts: headless corpse, my · What happens: be, trow, have, fight, live, fling · To what, where: earth, fun, foes, life

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (headless corpse, my), 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	_	24 trow	punct
2	On	on	ADP	_	3 earth	case
3	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trow	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 thou	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thou	cop
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 thou	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 thou	case
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 earth	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turban	punct
10	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 turban	nmod:poss
11	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thou	conj
12	awry	awry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 turban	amod
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 awry	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 head	punct
17	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turban	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 highest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 highest	det
21	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 head	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 earth	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 trow	nsubj
24	trow	trow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Having	punct
26	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 trow	conj
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fun	nmod:poss
28	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Having	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fling	cc
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fling	nmod:poss
31	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fun	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Fighting	punct
33	Fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 Having	parataxis
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 foes	nmod:poss
35	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Fighting	obj
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 brave	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 brave	det
38	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Fighting	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Living	punct
40	Living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 Fighting	conj
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 life	nmod:poss
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Living	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 swing	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 swing	det
45	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Living	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 trow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the headless corpse = corpse			as thou	tree rules
2	trow in a quote	present	the headless corpse = corpse		earth		tree rules
3	have in a quote	gerund	the headless corpse = corpse not said here	my fun and my fling			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient
4	fight in a quote	gerund		my foes		like a brave	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Co-Agent
5	live in a quote	gerund		my life		with a swing	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
6	fling in a quote		my				nom fling «act intransitive»: poss=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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