Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 58

How can I crush the oil out of all this mustard seed in one day?" he said to himself; "and if I do not, the king will kill me."

Who acts: I, prince, king · What happens: crush, say, not do, kill · To what, where: oil, mustard seed, prince, me · 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, prince, king), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 crush	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 crush	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 crush	nsubj
4	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oil	det
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crush	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	12 seed	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 seed	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 seed	det:predet
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 seed	det
11	mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seed	compound
12	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crush	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seed	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 crush	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 crush	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crush	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 himself	case
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 said	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 crush	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 crush	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 kill	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
27	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 kill	advcl
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 do	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kill	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 kill	aux
33	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 crush	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 kill	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crush	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 crush	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	crush	can	I	the oil		all mustard seed in one day	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	prince		prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	not do a condition, not said to happen	present	I				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kill	future	the king	me			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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