Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 130
I have a charm, whereby I can make them thin or fat."
Who acts: I · What happens: have, make · To what, where: charm, horses
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: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 charm | det |
| 4 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 6 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 make | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 fat | cc |
| 13 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thin | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a charm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | can | I | horses = horse | thin, whereby property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
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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