Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 59
She could not live without seeing him.
Who acts: Gulizar · What happens: not live, see · To what, where: prince
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 (Gulizar), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 seeing | mark |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 live | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seeing | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | could | Gulizar | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | Gulizar not said here | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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