Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 37

But she told him that before she married him he must allow her a little more time, in which she might make his acquaintance, and that, after being enemies so long, their friendship could but strengthen by degrees. "

Who acts: Magician, son, that · What happens: tell, marry, allow, make, be, strengthen · To what, where: son, Magician, acquaintance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician, son, that), 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	_	3 told	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	ADV	_	8 married	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 married	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 married	nsubj
8	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 allow	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 married	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 allow	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 allow	aux
12	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 allow	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 little	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 more	obl:unmarked
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 allow	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 make	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 make	aux
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 allow	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 acquaintance	nmod:poss
25	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 strengthen	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 strengthen	cc
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 strengthen	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 that	punct
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 enemies	case
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 enemies	cop
32	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 that	nmod
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
34	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 strengthen	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 long	punct
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 friendship	nmod:poss
37	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 strengthen	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 strengthen	aux
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 strengthen	cc
40	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
41	by	by	ADP	_	42 degrees	case
42	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 strengthen	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Magician		son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	marry	past	Magician	son			that property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	allow	must	son		Magician	time		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
4	make	might	Magician	son's acquaintance				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Product
5	is	gerund				after enemies		tree rules
6	strengthen	could	that				by degrees; long property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	acquaint		son					nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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