Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 105
"You'll let me fall if you carry me like that.
Who acts: You, crane · What happens: let, fall, carry · To what, where: crane
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, crane), 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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | aux |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fall | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 carry | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | future | You | the crane = crane | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | infinitive | the crane = crane not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the crane = crane | like that | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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