Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 63

Then the Magician said, "If it is an old favourite, I can understand your not caring to give it away; but come what will you sell it for?"

Who acts: Magician, parrot, you · What happens: say, be, understand, not care, give away, come · To what, where: old favourite, 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 (Magician, parrot, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Magician	det
3	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 understand	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 understand	punct
7	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 favourite	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 favourite	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 favourite	cop
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 favourite	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 favourite	amod
12	favourite	favourite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 understand	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 favourite	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 understand	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 understand	aux
16	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 caring	nmod:poss
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 caring	advmod
19	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 understand	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 give	mark
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 caring	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	obj
23	away	away	ADV	_	21 give	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 sell	obj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sell	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 sell	nsubj
30	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sell	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	30 sell	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the Magician		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	parrot	a old favourite			tree rules
3	understand in a quote	can	the Magician = magician				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not care in a quote	gerund					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	give away in a quote	to-infinitive		parrot		away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	come in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
7	sell in a quote	future	you	parrot			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient it=Theme

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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