Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 6

Every day, before breakfast, he cuts off the heads of two or three men, just to amuse himself.

Who acts: corpse · What happens: cut off, amuse · To what, where: heads, corpse

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 (corpse), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cuts	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 breakfast	punct
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 breakfast	case
5	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cuts	nsubj
8	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cuts	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heads	det
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cuts	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 men	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 men	nummod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 three	cc
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 two	conj
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heads	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 amuse	punct
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 amuse	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 amuse	mark
20	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cuts	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 amuse	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cuts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	present	corpse	the heads of two men			day		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	amuse	to-infinitive	corpse not said here	corpse					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer

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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