Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 133

A piece of the flesh of such a lion-man as he would be too much for me to digest, if it were no bigger than a kidney-bean.

Who acts: piece, me, flesh · What happens: be, digest, not be

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 (piece, me, flesh), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 much	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 flesh	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flesh	det
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 man	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 man	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 lion	punct
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flesh	nmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 he	case
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 man	nmod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 much	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 much	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 digest	mark
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 digest	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 digest	mark
21	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 much	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bigger	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 bigger	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bigger	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bigger	cop
26	no	no	ADV	_	27 bigger	advmod
27	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 digest	advcl
28	than	than	ADP	_	32 bean	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bean	det
30	kidney	kidney	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bean	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 kidney	punct
32	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bigger	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	a piece of the flesh of such lion man as man	much property	tree rules
2	digest	to-infinitive	me		tree rules
3	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	flesh	than a kidney bean; big property	tree rules

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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