Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 144
"To Granny's house I go, Where I shall fatter grow, Then you can eat me so."
Who acts: Vulture, you · What happens: go, grow, eat · To what, where: house, Vulture
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vulture, you), 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 | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 3 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Granny | case |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grow | punct |
| 9 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 grow | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 grow | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 grow | aux |
| 12 | fatter | fat | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 grow | advmod |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
| 15 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 eat | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 eat | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | aux |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 grow | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 eat | obj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 eat | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | the Vulture = vulture | Granny's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | shall | the Vulture = vulture | fat property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | can | you | the Vulture = vulture | then | 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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