Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 110

Now if he should really put me into the pond, it would be capital; but if he doesn't--then I'll cut his throat, and kill him!"

Who acts: fellow, pond, I · What happens: put, be, not do, cut, kill · To what, where: me, pond, throat, fellow

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 (fellow, pond, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 put	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 put	advmod
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 put	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 pond	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pond	det
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 capital	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 capital	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 capital	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 capital	cop
15	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 put	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 cut	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 cut	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 does	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 does	nsubj
20	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 cut	advcl
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 does	advmod
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 does	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 cut	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 cut	nsubj
25	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 cut	aux
26	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 put	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 throat	nmod:poss
28	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kill	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kill	cc
31	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 put	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 kill	obj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 kill	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	should	fellow		me	the pond	now		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal
2	is	would	pond					capital property	tree rules
3	not do a condition, not said to happen	present	fellow						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cut	future	I	fellow's throat			then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Product
5	kill	infinitive	fellow not said here	fellow					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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