Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 10

To-day I should like to hunt very much."

Who acts: I · What happens: like, hunt

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hunt	mark
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 like	xcomp
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	8 hunt	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	should	I				day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hunt not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «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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