Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 97
Come out! my friend, the crow is near, And he may do you harm, I fear!"
Who acts: you, crow, I · What happens: come out, be, do, harm, fear · To what, where: you
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, crow, I), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 near | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crow | det |
| 8 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 near | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 near | cop |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 friend | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | iobj |
| 17 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 do | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fear | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fear | nsubj |
| 20 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | imperative | you not said here | my friend vocative; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the crow | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | may | Crow | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | harm | infinitive | Crow not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | fear | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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