Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 120

You mean me to understand, I suppose, that I am your slave, who has to lift you up and carry you about with him!

Who acts: You, I, slave · What happens: mean, understand, suppose, be, have, lift up · To what, where: me, slave, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, slave), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 mean	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 understand	mark
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mean	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 suppose	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 suppose	nsubj
8	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mean	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 slave	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 slave	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 slave	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 slave	cop
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 slave	nmod:poss
14	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 suppose	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 slave	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 lift	mark
19	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 has	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 lift	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 lift	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carry	cc
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lift	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 carry	obj
25	about	about	ADV	_	23 carry	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carry	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	You	me		tree rules
2	understand not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	suppose	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	I	your slave		tree rules
5	have	present	your slave			tree rules
6	lift up	to-infinitive	your slave not said here	you		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	carry	infinitive	your slave not said here	you	with Uncle; about property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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