Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 140
So spare me, and receive the small quantity of gold which is in my possession."
Who acts: you, small quantity · What happens: spare, receive, be · To what, where: me, small quantity, possession
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 (you, small quantity), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 spare | advmod |
| 2 | spare | spare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 spare | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 receive | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 receive | cc |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 spare | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 quantity | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quantity | amod |
| 9 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quantity | nmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 possession | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 possession | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 possession | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 possession | nmod:poss |
| 16 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quantity | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spare | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 spare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | imperative | you not said here | me | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset | ||||
| 2 | receive | infinitive | you not said here | the small quantity of gold and my possession | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the small quantity of gold and my possession | my possession | 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.
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