Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 121
Well, don't mind me, but begin your dinner, for I shall never understand!"
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not mind, begin, not understand · To what, where: me, dinner
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. 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), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 mind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 mind | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mind | advmod |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 mind | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 begin | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 begin | cc |
| 9 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mind | advcl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begin | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 understand | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 understand | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 understand | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 understand | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 understand | advmod |
| 17 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 begin | parataxis |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | infinitive | you not said here | your dinner | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not understand | shall | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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