Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 49

As soon as I've eaten my bread I'll go forth and cut off his head!"

Who acts: I · What happens: eat, go, cut off · To what, where: bread, head

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), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 eaten	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 eaten	nsubj
5	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 soon	advcl
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bread	nmod:poss
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eaten	ccomp
12	forth	forth	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cut	cc
14	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 eaten	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 cut	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 eaten	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect	I	my bread		tree rules
2	go	future	I		forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cut off	participle	I not said here	king's head		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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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