Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 105

When he saw the beautiful little boy, he was very much delighted and said, "If it pleases Khuda that this child should live, I will not hurt him; I will not eat him, but I will swallow him whole and hide him in my stomach."

Who acts: King, box, child · What happens: see, be, say, please, live, not hurt · To what, where: beautiful little boy, Khuda, King, stomach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, box, child), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 eat	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 delighted	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 delighted	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 delighted	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 delighted	advmod
13	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pleases	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 pleases	punct
18	If	if	SCONJ	_	20 pleases	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pleases	nsubj
20	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
21	Khuda	Khuda	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 pleases	obj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 live	mark
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 live	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 live	aux
26	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 hurt	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 live	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hurt	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hurt	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 hurt	advmod
31	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pleases	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hurt	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 eat	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 eat	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 eat	advmod
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 eat	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 swallow	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 swallow	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 swallow	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 swallow	aux
43	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 eat	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 swallow	obj
45	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 swallow	xcomp
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 hide	cc
47	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 swallow	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 hide	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 stomach	case
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 stomach	nmod:poss
51	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hide	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 eat	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	King	the beautiful little boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	is	past	King			delighted property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	King not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	please a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	box	Khuda			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus khuda=Experiencer
5	live in a quote	should	this child				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not hurt in a quote	future	King	King			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
7	not eat in a quote	future	King	King			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	swallow in a quote	future	King	King		whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
9	hide in a quote	present	King not said here	King	my stomach		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in stomach=Location

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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