Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 10

Whatever sweetmeats or bread are prepared in any house, one and all of you must try to bring whatever you can to our benefactor.

Who acts: all · What happens: prepare, try, bring · To what, where: sweetmeats, house, whatever, benefactor

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 sweetmeats	det:predet
2	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 prepared	nsubj:pass
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 bread	cc
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sweetmeats	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 prepared	aux:pass
6	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prepared	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 house	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 try	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 try	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 all	nmod
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 try	aux
17	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 one	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 bring	mark
19	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 try	xcomp
20	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 bring	obj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 can	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 whatever	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 benefactor	case
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 benefactor	nmod:poss
25	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bring	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	prepare	present · passive		whatever sweetmeats or bread	any house	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	try	must	all			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	all not said here	whatever	our benefactor	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme to benefactor=Destination

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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