Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 42

"Because," she replied, "if I am to be your wife, I would fain know all about you, in order, if any calamity threatens you, to overcome, or if possible to avert it."

Who acts: death, calamity · What happens: reply, be, fain, know, threaten, overcome · To what, where: wife, order, you, calamity · 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 (death, calamity), 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	_	6 replied	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 replied	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Because	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 replied	nsubj
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fain	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 fain	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 wife	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 wife	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wife	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	15 wife	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 wife	cop
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fain	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wife	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 fain	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fain	aux
19	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fain	xcomp
21	all	all	ADV	_	23 you	advmod
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 know	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 order	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 order	case
26	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 know	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 threatens	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 threatens	mark
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 calamity	det
30	calamity	calamity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 threatens	nsubj
31	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fain	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 threatens	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 overcome	punct
34	to	to	PART	_	35 overcome	mark
35	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 threatens	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 possible	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 possible	cc
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 possible	mark
39	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 overcome	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 avert	mark
41	avert	avert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 possible	csubj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 avert	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 fain	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 fain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	death				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	death	your wife			tree rules
3	fain in a quote	would	death				tree rules
4	know in a quote	infinitive	death not said here		order	about you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about you=Stimulus
5	threaten a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	any calamity	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
6	overcome in a quote	to-infinitive	any calamity not said here				vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
7	avert in a quote	to-infinitive		calamity			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/pg7128/10/42/