Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 143
But now that you have seen me you will find it impossible to do wickedly.
Who acts: you, devourer · What happens: see, find, do · To what, where: me, devourer
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, devourer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 find | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 seen | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 seen | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 seen | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 find | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 seen | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 find | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impossible | xcomp |
| 15 | wickedly | wickedly | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | you | me | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | future | you | devourer | impossible property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | devourer not said here | wickedly property | vn act-114-1 «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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