Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 94
No paltry risk--but life and death at stake; As Heaven does, so do, for Heaven's sake!"
Who acts: paltry risk · What happens: do
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 (paltry risk), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 risk | det |
| 2 | paltry | paltry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 risk | amod |
| 3 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | nsubj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 life | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 life | cc |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 risk | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 death | cc |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 risk | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 stake | case |
| 10 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 risk | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 does | punct |
| 12 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 does | mark |
| 13 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 does | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sake | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 sake | case |
| 20 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sake | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Heaven | case |
| 22 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · do-support | no paltry risk at stake but life and death | for Heaven's sake | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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