Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 57

If he asks you what you would like, you would, perhaps, do well to reply, 'The ring on your right hand, and the famous pot and spoon which you possess.'

Who acts: father, you · What happens: ask, like, reply, possess · To what, where: you, ring, right hand, famous pot · 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 (father, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 asks	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 would	advcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 asks	obj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 like	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 would	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reply	aux
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 would	punct
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 reply	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 perhaps	punct
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 reply	aux
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 reply	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 reply	mark
18	reply	reply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ring	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 ring	punct
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ring	det
22	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reply	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 hand	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hand	amod
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ring	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pot	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pot	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pot	det
30	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pot	amod
31	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ring	appos
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 spoon	cc
33	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pot	conj
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 possess	obj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 possess	nsubj
36	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pot	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 reply	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 reply	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	father		you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like	would	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	would · do-support		the ring		your right hand	perhaps, well property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
4	possess	present	you	the famous pot and spoon				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=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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