Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 75
I shall not eat my bread Of stranger hands, nor to strange stall be led.
Who acts: I · What happens: not eat, lead · To what, where: bread
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 eat | advmod |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bread | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 7 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 8 | stranger | strange | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 hands | amod |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bread | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 led | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 led | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 stall | case |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stall | amod |
| 14 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 led | aux:pass |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 eat | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | shall | I | my bread of stranger hands | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lead | infinitive · passive | I not said here | to strange stall | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: to stall=Patient |
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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