Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 119
Examine your daughter, and you will find the marks of the burn on her back.
Who acts: you · What happens: examine, find, mark · To what, where: daughter, marks, burn
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Examine | examine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Examine | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 find | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Examine | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 marks | det |
| 10 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 burn | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 burn | det |
| 13 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marks | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burn | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Examine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | imperative | you not said here | your daughter | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | the marks of the burn on anger's back | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mark | the burn on anger's back | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=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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