Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 101

But you must not speak to him, if he is afraid of you; and should he be afraid of you, you will the next day become a little white dog."

Who acts: you, Dantal · What happens: not speak, be, become · To what, where: Dantal, little white dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Dantal), 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	_	5 speak	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 speak	advmod
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speak	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 afraid	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 afraid	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	cop
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speak	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 afraid	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 afraid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 afraid	cc
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 afraid	aux
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 afraid	nsubj
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 afraid	cop
20	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speak	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 afraid	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 become	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 become	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 become	aux
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 day	det
27	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 day	amod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 become	nsubj
29	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 afraid	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dog	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dog	amod
32	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dog	amod
33	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 become	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	must	you		Dantal		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Dantal			of you; afraid property	tree rules
3	is	should	Dantal			of you; afraid property	tree rules
4	become	future	you	a little white dog			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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