Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 147

But cunning little Lambikin said that would never do, for some animal would be sure to eat him on the way back, he was so plump and tender.

Who acts: cunning little Lambikin, animal, Lambikin · What happens: say, not do, be, eat · To what, where: Lambikin, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cunning little Lambikin, animal, Lambikin), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Lambikin	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Lambikin	amod
4	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 do	advmod
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sure	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 sure	mark
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 animal	det
13	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sure	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 sure	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 sure	cop
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 do	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sure	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eat	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 way	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	obl
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 way	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 plump	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 plump	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 plump	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 plump	advmod
28	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tender	cc
30	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plump	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	cunning little Lambikin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do	would					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	some animal			sure property	tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	some animal not said here	Lambikin	the way		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	is	past	Lambikin			plump property	tree rules
6	be		Lambikin not said here				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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