Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 25

Oh! please do not kill it," said he; "I will give you one hundred rupees for it."

Who acts: fellow, I · What happens: not kill, say, give · To what, where: dog, 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 (fellow, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 kill	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	please	please	INTJ	_	6 kill	discourse
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 kill	advmod
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kill	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 hundred	compound
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 rupees	nummod
20	rupees	rupee	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 give	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not kill	infinitive · do-support		dog			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	fellow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
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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