Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 128

To go out by any other way would be to thrust oneself into the grave."

What happens: go out, be · To what, where: grave

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thrust	advcl
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 go	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 way	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 way	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 thrust	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 thrust	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 thrust	mark
11	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	oneself	oneself	PRON	Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 thrust	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 grave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grave	det
15	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thrust	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thrust	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	to-infinitive						by any other way	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would				the grave		thrust 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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