Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 101

I would not do as I was told, So now I'm plucked, as you behold."

Who acts: I · What happens: not do, tell, pluck · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. 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	4 do	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 do	advmod
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 do	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 plucked	punct
10	So	so	ADV	_	14 plucked	advmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 plucked	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 plucked	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 plucked	aux:pass
14	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 do	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 behold	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 behold	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 behold	nsubj
18	behold	behold	INTJ	_	14 plucked	discourse
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not do	would	I			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		I		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	pluck	present · passive		I	now	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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