Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 129

Besides, in my belly is a thunderbolt; if you eat me, you will never be able to digest it; this will tear your inwards into little bits, and kill you: so we shall both perish.

Who acts: belly, you, this, we · What happens: be, eat, not be, digest, tear, kill · To what, where: thunderbolt, me, belly, little bits, 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 (belly, you, this, we), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	8 thunderbolt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thunderbolt	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 thunderbolt	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 belly	nmod:poss
5	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thunderbolt	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thunderbolt	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thunderbolt	det
8	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 able	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 eat	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 able	advcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 eat	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 able	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 able	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 able	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	cop
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thunderbolt	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 digest	mark
21	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 digest	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tear	punct
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 tear	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tear	aux
26	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 digest	conj
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bits	nmod:poss
28	inwards	inwards	ADV	_	31 bits	advmod
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 bits	case
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bits	amod
31	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tear	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kill	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 kill	cc
34	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tear	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 kill	obj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 perish	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	41 perish	advmod
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 perish	nsubj
39	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 perish	aux
40	both	both	ADV	_	41 perish	advmod
41	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thunderbolt	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thunderbolt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	my belly		a thunderbolt		tree rules
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	not is	future	you			able property	tree rules
4	digest	to-infinitive	you not said here	belly			tree rules
5	tear	future	this	your little bits			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bit=Theme
6	kill	infinitive	this not said here	you			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	perish	shall	we			both property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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