Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 103

"You'll come to grief again, I know-- It is your nature to do so; If people make a dish of meat, 'Tis not for little birds to eat."

Who acts: You, Dinner, grief, people · What happens: come, know, be, do, make, eat · To what, where: grief, nature, dish · 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 (You, Dinner, grief, people), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 grief	case
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	advcl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 nature	punct
12	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 nature	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nature	cop
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nature	nmod:poss
15	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 know	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nature	acl
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 make	punct
20	If	if	SCONJ	_	22 make	mark
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 make	nsubj
22	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dish	det
24	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 meat	case
26	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dish	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Tis	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 Tis	punct
29	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 make	obl
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 birds	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 birds	case
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 birds	amod
33	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 Tis	nmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 birds	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	future	You		grief	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grief=Initial_Location
2	know in a quote	present	Dinner					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a in a quote	present	grief	your nature				tree rules
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive	Dinner not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	people	a dish of meat			Tis for little birds obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Product
6	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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