Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 57
Do not release him; and if you do, you shall surely repent of it one day or other."
Who acts: you · What happens: not release, do, repent · To what, where: man
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 (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 release | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 release | advmod |
| 3 | release | release | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 release | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 repent | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 repent | cc |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 repent | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 repent | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 repent | aux |
| 13 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 14 repent | advmod |
| 14 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 release | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 repent | obl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 repent | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 other | cc |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 release | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 release | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not release | imperative · do-support | you not said here | man | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | repent | shall | you | day | of serpent; surely property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/14/57/