Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 27
Better softly withdraw from him, Neither envying nor abusing."
What happens: withdraw, envy, abuse
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: 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 | Better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 withdraw | advmod |
| 2 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 3 withdraw | advmod |
| 3 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 withdraw | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 envying | punct |
| 7 | Neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 envying | cc:preconj |
| 8 | envying | envy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 withdraw | advcl |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 abusing | cc |
| 10 | abusing | abuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 envying | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 withdraw | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 withdraw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | present | from Crane; softly, well property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | envy | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | abuse | gerund | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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