Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 45
I am there with you ready to oblige you by all the means that I can.
Who acts: I, the · What happens: be, oblige, mean · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, the), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ready | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 6 ready | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 oblige | mark |
| 8 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 oblige | obj |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 means | mark |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 means | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 means | nsubj |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 oblige | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 can | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | there | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | oblige | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | the | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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