Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 138

"Perfectly!" grinned the jackal, as he dexterously shut the door, "and if you will permit me to say so, I think matters will remain as they were!"

Who acts: Jackal, you, I, matters, wits · What happens: grin, shut, permit, say, think, remain · To what, where: jackal, door, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jackal, you, I, matters), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 grinned	punct
2	Perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 grinned	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Perfectly	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Perfectly	punct
5	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jackal	det
7	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grinned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shut	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 shut	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shut	nsubj
11	dexterously	dexterously	ADV	_	12 shut	advmod
12	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grinned	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shut	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grinned	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 grinned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 permit	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 permit	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 permit	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 permit	aux
21	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grinned	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 permit	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 say	mark
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 permit	xcomp
25	so	so	ADV	_	24 say	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 think	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 think	nsubj
28	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grinned	conj
29	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 remain	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 remain	aux
31	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 think	ccomp
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 were	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 were	nsubj
34	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 remain	advcl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 grinned	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 grinned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grin	past		the jackal	perfectly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackal=Theme
2	shut	past	Jackal	the door	dexterously property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	permit a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	me		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other in a quote	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	remain in a quote	future	matters			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	be in a quote	past	wits = wit			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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