Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 113
This day will I pound you and grind you to powder!"
Who acts: you · What happens: grind, powder · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pound | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pound | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pound | nsubj |
| 5 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 grind | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grind | cc |
| 8 | grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pound | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 grind | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 powder | mark |
| 11 | powder | powder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 grind | xcomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 pound | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind | present | you | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | powder | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/113/