Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 53
Oh, no," said the snake, "you will not, for I will give you a medicine that will make you quite well again."
Who acts: I, medicine · What happens: say, give, make · To what, where: snake, medicine, you · 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 (I, medicine), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 1 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snake | det |
| 8 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 will | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 will | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 will | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 will | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 medicine | det |
| 21 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 make | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 medicine | acl:relcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 27 well | advmod |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 again | advmod |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 make | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the snake | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | future | I | a medicine | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient medicine=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | future | a medicine | you | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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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