Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 48

The Prince, however, replied, "Mother, unless I can get hold of that parrot, you, and my father, and uncles, cannot be liberated: be not afraid, I will shortly return.

Who acts: I · What happens: reply, get, not liberate, not be, return, hold · To what, where: Prince, hold, father, parrot · 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 (I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 replied	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Prince	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 replied	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Mother	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Mother	punct
9	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
11	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	14 get	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 replied	parataxis
15	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 parrot	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 parrot	det
18	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hold	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 you	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 get	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 liberated	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 liberated	cc
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 liberated	nsubj:pass
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 uncles	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 uncles	cc
27	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 father	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 father	punct
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 liberated	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 liberated	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 liberated	aux:pass
32	liberated	liberate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 replied	conj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 afraid	punct
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 afraid	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 afraid	advmod
36	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 replied	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 return	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 return	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 return	aux
40	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	41 return	advmod
41	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 afraid	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	participle · passive		the Prince	Mother obl; however property	tree rules
2	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	I	hold of that parrot		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	not liberate in a quote	can · passive		my father and uncles		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not is in a quote	infinitive			afraid property	tree rules
5	return in a quote	future	I		shortly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hold in a quote			that parrot		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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