Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 103
"But how will you take hold of me to carry me along?"
Who acts: you · What happens: take, carry, hold · To what, where: hold, crane, me
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 take | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 take | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hold | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 carry | mark |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | advcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | obj |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 carry | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | you | hold of me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the crane = crane | along property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | hold in a quote | me | 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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