Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 30
You shall always blow in the hot dry weather, and shall parch and shrivel all living things.
Who acts: You · What happens: blow, parch, shrivel, live · To what, where: hot dry weather, living things
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 blow | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 blow | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 blow | advmod |
| 4 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 weather | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 weather | det |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 weather | amod |
| 8 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 weather | amod |
| 9 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blow | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 parch | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 parch | cc |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 parch | aux |
| 13 | parch | parch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 blow | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shrivel | cc |
| 15 | shrivel | shrivel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 parch | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 things | det |
| 17 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 things | amod |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shrivel | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | shall | You | the hot dry weather | always property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | parch | shall | You not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | shrivel | infinitive | You not said here | all living things | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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