Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 56
So if you cannot crush all the oil out of this mustard seed, you will die."
Who acts: you · What happens: not crush, die · To what, where: oil, mustard seed
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 18 die | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 crush | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 crush | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 crush | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 crush | advmod |
| 6 | crush | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 die | advcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 oil | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 oil | det |
| 9 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crush | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 seed | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 seed | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 seed | det |
| 13 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seed | compound |
| 14 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crush | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crush | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 die | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 die | aux |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 die | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not crush a condition, not said to happen | can | you | all oil | this mustard seed | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient | |||
| 2 | die | future | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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