Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 84
So go, only before you go, twist my right ear."
Who acts: you · What happens: go, twist · To what, where: right ear
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 twist | punct |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 twist | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 twist | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 9 | twist | twist | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ear | amod |
| 12 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twist | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | twist | infinitive | you not said here | my right ear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=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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