Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 12
Don't be afraid, friend, I'll not eat thee; only save my life." "
Who acts: I · What happens: do, not be, not eat, save · To what, where: thee, life
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 (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 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 eat | advcl |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 afraid | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Do | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 afraid | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 eat | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 eat | advmod |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 eat | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 save | advmod |
| 15 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 eat | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 save | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | I not said here | friend vocative; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not eat | future | I | thee | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | ||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | I not said here | my life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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