Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 113
If you let me catch hold of you round the neck with my claws, I shall be glad to go with you."
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, catch, round, be, go · To what, where: me, hold, neck
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, me, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 let | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 glad | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 catch | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 round | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 round | nsubj |
| 9 | round | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hold | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 neck | det |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 round | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 claws | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 claws | nmod:poss |
| 14 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 neck | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 glad | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 glad | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 glad | cop |
| 19 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 glad | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 glad | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | infinitive | me not said here | hold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | round | present | you | the neck | with my claws | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent neck=Patient with claw=Instrument | |||
| 4 | is | shall | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
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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