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title: A piece of the flesh of such a lion-man as he would be too much for… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A piece of the flesh of such a lion-man as he would be too much for me to digest, if it were no bigger than a kidney-bean. Who acts: piece, me, flesh. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 133

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A piece of the flesh of such a lion-man as he would be too much for me to digest, if it were no bigger than a kidney-bean.

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**Who acts:** piece, me, flesh · **What happens:** be, digest, not be

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece, me, flesh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:26:133
# text = A piece of the flesh of such a lion-man as he would be too much for me to digest, if it were no bigger than a kidney-bean.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	advcl	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	kidney	kidney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	bean	bean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | a piece of the flesh of such lion man as man |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **digest** | to-infinitive | me |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | flesh |  |  |  |  | than a kidney bean; big *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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