Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 23
Some one may report this to the king, and if he knows it, you will obtain your liberty."
Who acts: one, calamity, you · What happens: report, know, obtain · To what, where: this, king, best, liberty
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 (one, calamity, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 report | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 report | aux |
| 4 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 report | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 report | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 obtain | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 obtain | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 knows | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knows | nsubj |
| 13 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 obtain | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knows | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knows | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 obtain | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 obtain | aux |
| 18 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 report | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 liberty | nmod:poss |
| 20 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obtain | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 report | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 report | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | may | some one | this | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | calamity | best = good | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | obtain | future | you | your liberty | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liberty=Theme |
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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