Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 23
"As I feed on blood, And always hunt for prey, 'Tis much that thou art still alive Having once been between my teeth."
Who acts: Lion, you, Having · What happens: feed, hunt, have, be · To what, where: Tis · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lion, you, Having), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunt | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 feed | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feed | nsubj |
| 4 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunt | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 blood | case |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feed | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hunt | cc |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 hunt | advmod |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 prey | case |
| 12 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hunt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tis | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tis | punct |
| 15 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hunt | obj |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 art | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 art | mark |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 art | nsubj |
| 19 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunt | advcl |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 alive | advmod |
| 21 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 teeth | amod |
| 22 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 teeth | csubj |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 Having | advmod |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 teeth | cop |
| 25 | between | between | ADP | _ | 27 teeth | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 art | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunt | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed in a quote | present | the Lion = lion | on blood | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on blood=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hunt in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Tis | for prey; always property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tis=Location for prey=Theme | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | gerund | once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | participle | Having | between my alive teeth | tree rules |
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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