Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 75
I will be there by your side to assist you by all possible means."
Who acts: I, possible · What happens: be, assist, 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, possible), 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 | 4 there | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 side | nmod:poss |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 assist | mark |
| 9 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 there | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 assist | obj |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 means | mark |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 possible | det |
| 13 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 assist | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | I | by your side; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assist | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | all possible | 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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