Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 82

If you eat a lamp-wick, that stays in your stomach a little while; but anything else is digested in a trice, as soon as you eat it.

Who acts: you, lamp wick · What happens: eat, stay, digest · To what, where: lamp wick, stomach, anything, trice, wick

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, lamp wick), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 eat	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wick	det
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wick	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 lamp	punct
7	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stays	punct
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 stays	nsubj
10	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wick	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 stomach	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stomach	nmod:poss
13	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stays	obl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 while	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 while	amod
16	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stays	obl:unmarked
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 digested	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 digested	cc
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 digested	nsubj:pass
20	else	else	ADV	_	19 anything	advmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 digested	aux:pass
22	digested	digest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 eat	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 trice	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 trice	det
25	trice	trice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 digested	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 soon	punct
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 soon	advmod
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 digested	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 eat	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 eat	nsubj
31	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 soon	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 eat	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	you	a lamp wick				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wick=Patient
2	stay	present	a lamp wick		your stomach	while		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stomach=Location
3	digest	present · passive		anything	a trice		soon property	tree rules
4	eat	present	you	wick				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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