Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 49

Do you, meantime, keep the Magician in good humour--still putting off your marriage with him on various pretexts; and before he finds out the cause of delay, I will be here."

Who acts: you, meantime, I, your · What happens: keep, put off, find out, be, marry, cause · To what, where: Magician, good humour, marriage, various pretexts, cause, delay · 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 (you, meantime, I, your), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 keep	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meantime	punct
4	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meantime	punct
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Magician	det
8	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 humour	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 humour	amod
11	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 putting	punct
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 putting	advmod
14	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 keep	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 putting	compound:prt
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 marriage	nmod:poss
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 putting	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 putting	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 pretexts	case
21	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pretexts	amod
22	pretexts	pretext	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 putting	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 finds	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 finds	cc
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 finds	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 finds	nsubj
27	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 finds	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cause	det
30	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 finds	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 delay	case
32	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cause	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 finds	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 here	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 here	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 here	cop
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 finds	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	you	the Magician	good humour			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent magician=Theme in humour=Location
2	put off	gerund	you not said here	your marriage	various pretexts	still	with meantime	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme on pretext=Destination
3	find out	present	meantime	the cause of delay				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
4	is	future	I				here property	tree rules
5	marry		your					nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent
6	cause			delay				nom cause «event 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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