Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 67

No matter how far away I may be, I shall hear it, and will come at once to you."

Who acts: I · What happens: be, hear, come · To what, where: matter, you

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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 matter	det
2	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	obl:unmarked
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 matter	acl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 be	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 be	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 away	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 matter	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 hear	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hear	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 come	cc
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hear	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 come	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 come	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive				away, far property	tree rules
2	hear	shall	I	no matter			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	come	future	I not said here		you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_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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