Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 16
Let the water not flow into her pitcher, and you may keep the maiden as your own."
Who acts: you, water · What happens: let, not flow, keep · To what, where: water, pitcher, maiden
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, water), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 flow | advmod |
| 5 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 pitcher | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pitcher | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flow | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keep | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 keep | aux |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 own | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 own | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 keep | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not flow | infinitive | the water not said here | sister's pitcher | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | may | you | the maiden | as your own | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=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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