Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 88
But if you don't believe me that there is such a pond, send one of you with me to go and see it."
Who acts: you, pond · What happens: not believe, be, send, go, see · To what, where: me, one, pond
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, pond), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 send | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 believe | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 send | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 is | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | advcl |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 pond | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pond | det |
| 13 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 send | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 send | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 send | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 see | cc |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 go | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | present | such pond | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | imperative | you not said here | one of you | with me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | you not said here | pond | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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