Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 37
Why, by the time I have given each of you a swing, the first will be wanting another!
Who acts: I, first · What happens: give, want · To what, where: swing, another
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 (I, first), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 given | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 given | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 you | det |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 given | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 swing | det |
| 13 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wanting | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 first | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 wanting | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wanting | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wanting | aux |
| 19 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 given | advcl |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 wanting | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | I | a swing | time | of you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swing=Theme | ||
| 2 | want | future · progressive | the first | another | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot another=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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