Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 130

"I will tell you," said the prince, "if you will give me that sword."

Who acts: prince, you · What happens: tell, say, give · To what, where: you, sword, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 give	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 sword	det
19	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the prince = prince		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	that sword	man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sword=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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