Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 20

Or lower thy lance for the fray; Thy head will be forfeit to-day!

Who acts: head · What happens: be

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 (head), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	2 lower	cc
2	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 lance	nmod:poss
4	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lower	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 fray	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fray	det
7	fray	fray	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lower	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 forfeit	punct
9	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forfeit	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 forfeit	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 forfeit	cop
13	forfeit	forfeit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lower	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 to	punct
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forfeit	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 lower	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	Thy head				day	forfeit property	tree rules

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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