Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 21
Please do not kill the dog," pleaded the young and tender-hearted fellow; "I will give you one hundred rupees for it."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not kill, plead, give · To what, where: dog, young, hundred rupees, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 kill | discourse |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 kill | advmod |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kill | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleaded | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleaded | punct |
| 9 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 young | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pleaded | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fellow | cc |
| 13 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fellow | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 tender | punct |
| 15 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fellow | amod |
| 16 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 young | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 give | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pleaded | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hundred | compound |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 rupees | nummod |
| 25 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 give | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 give | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the dog | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plead speech: request in a quote | past | the young and tender hearted fellow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | future | I | hundred rupees | you | for dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient rupee=Theme for it=Asset |
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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