Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 146
Nay, if we do not get the ring for you, devour us all."
Who acts: we · What happens: not get, devour · To what, where: ring, us
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 (we), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 get | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 get | advmod |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 ring | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 devour | punct |
| 13 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 devour | obj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present · do-support | we | the ring | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ring=Theme for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | devour | infinitive | we not said here | us | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
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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