Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 7

One day no one else was at hand, so he cut off mine, and he will surely cut off yours on some pretence or another.

Who acts: one, corpse · What happens: be, cut off · To what, where: hand, mine, yours, pretence

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 (one, corpse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:1449): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	obl:unmarked
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	nsubj
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hand	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 hand	case
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cut	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 cut	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cut	nsubj
12	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hand	parataxis
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt
14	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cut	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cut	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cut	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 cut	aux
19	surely	surely	ADV	_	20 cut	advmod
20	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cut	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 cut	compound:prt
22	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cut	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 pretence	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 pretence	det
25	pretence	pretence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 another	cc
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 pretence	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no one		hand	day		tree rules
2	cut off	past	corpse	mine				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector my=Eventuality
3	cut off	future	corpse	yours	some pretence		surely property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector your=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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