Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 140
And do you remember your cow Suri, and how you had her killed too?
Who acts: you · What happens: remember, have, kill · To what, where: cow
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 remember | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remember | obj |
| 7 | Suri | Suri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cow | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 had | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 killed | nmod:poss |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 killed | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present · do-support | you | your cow | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill | participle | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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