Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 50
You will soon find them change their conduct towards you.
Who acts: You, bags · What happens: find, change, conduct · To what, where: bags, conduct
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, bags), 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 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 find | advmod |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 find | xcomp |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 8 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 change | obj |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 change | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | You | bags = bag | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | change | infinitive | bags = bag not said here | bags's conduct | towards you | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Patient | |||
| 3 | conduct | bags = bag | nom conduct «act 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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