Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 143
If you will procure it for me, I will allow the rat to depart unharmed.
Who acts: you, I, rat · What happens: procure, allow, depart · To what, where: Ring, rat
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, rat), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 procure | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 procure | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 procure | aux |
| 4 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allow | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 procure | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 procure | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 procure | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 allow | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 allow | aux |
| 11 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rat | det |
| 13 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allow | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 depart | mark |
| 15 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allow | xcomp |
| 16 | unharmed | unharmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 depart | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | procure a condition, not said to happen | future | you | Ring | for me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | allow | future | I | the rat | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer rat=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | depart not said to happen | to-infinitive | the rat not said here | unharmed property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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