Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 148
"I'll tell you what you must do," said Master Lambikin, "you must make a little drumikin out of the skin of my little brother who died, and then I can sit inside and trundle along nicely, for I'm as tight as a drum myself."
Who acts: I, you, Master, little brother · What happens: tell, do, say, make, die, sit · To what, where: you, little drumikin, skin · 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 (I, you, Master, little brother), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Master | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 drumikin | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 drumikin | amod |
| 22 | drumikin | drumikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 skin | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 skin | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 skin | det |
| 26 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 brother | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 brother | nmod:poss |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 brother | amod |
| 30 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 skin | nmod |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 died | nsubj |
| 32 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 brother | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sit | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sit | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 sit | advmod |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 sit | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 sit | aux |
| 38 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 make | conj |
| 39 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 38 sit | advmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 trundle | cc |
| 41 | trundle | trundle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 sit | conj |
| 42 | along | along | ADV | _ | 41 trundle | advmod |
| 43 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 41 trundle | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 tight | punct |
| 45 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 49 tight | mark |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 tight | nsubj |
| 47 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 tight | cop |
| 48 | as | as | ADV | _ | 49 tight | advmod |
| 49 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 sit | parataxis |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 52 drum | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 drum | det |
| 52 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 tight | obl |
| 53 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 49 tight | obl:unmarked |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | must | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | must | you | a little drumikin | the skin of my little brother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drumikin=Product | |||
| 5 | die in a quote | past | my little brother | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | sit in a quote | can | Master | then | inside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | trundle along in a quote | infinitive | Master not said here | along, nicely property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | Master | as a drum; myself obl:unmarked; tight property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/148/