Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 26
Henceforth, your rays shall ever be hot and scorching, and shall burn all that they touch.
Who acts: rays, your · What happens: be, scorch, burn, touch, ray
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 (rays, your), 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 | Henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 8 hot | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Henceforth | punct |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 rays | nmod:poss |
| 4 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hot | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hot | aux |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 hot | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hot | cop |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 scorching | cc |
| 10 | scorching | scorch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hot | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 burn | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 burn | cc |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 burn | aux |
| 14 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hot | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 touch | det:predet |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 touch | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 touch | nsubj |
| 18 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 burn | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | your rays | ever | henceforth, hot property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scorch | gerund | your rays not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | burn | shall | your rays not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | touch | present | rays = ray | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ray | your | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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