Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 123
I don't care about that, but what will become of the child if I am killed?
Who acts: I · What happens: not care, become, kill · To what, where: I
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 (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 care | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 care | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 care | advmod |
| 4 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 care | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 become | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 become | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 become | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 become | aux |
| 11 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 care | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 child | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 become | obl |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 killed | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 killed | aux:pass |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 become | advcl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | present · do-support | I | about that | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | become | future | of the child | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | kill a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | I | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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