Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 58

It has just been set alight, and my children will be baked alive; therefore I cannot rest!"

Who acts: I · What happens: set, bake, not rest · To what, where: chaupur, children

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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 set	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 set	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 set	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 set	aux:pass
5	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 set	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 baked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 baked	cc
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 children	nmod:poss
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 baked	nsubj:pass
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 baked	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 baked	aux:pass
13	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 set	conj
14	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 baked	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rest	punct
16	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	20 rest	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 rest	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 rest	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 rest	advmod
20	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 set	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 rest	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 rest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	present · perfect · passive		chaupur	alight property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	bake	future · passive		my children	alive property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
3	not rest	can	I		therefore property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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