Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 11
I could free thee from that bone, friend, but dare not enter thy mouth for fear thou mightest eat me." "
Who acts: thou · What happens: enter, eat · To what, where: mouth, me
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 free | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 free | aux |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 free | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bone | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 bone | det |
| 7 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 free | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bone | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 enter | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 enter | cc |
| 12 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 enter | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dare | advmod |
| 14 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 free | parataxis |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enter | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 fear | case |
| 18 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enter | obl |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 eat | nsubj |
| 20 | mightest | might | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 21 eat | aux |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fear | acl:relcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 free | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 free | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | infinitive | thy mouth | for fear | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Destination | ||||
| 2 | eat | might | thou | me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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