Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 15

We must try to recover it, and if we do not succeed we had better drown ourselves in this stream.

Who acts: We · What happens: try, recover, not succeed, have, drown · To what, where: stream, ourselves

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 (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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 try	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 try	aux
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 recover	mark
5	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 recover	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 succeed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 succeed	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 succeed	mark
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 succeed	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 succeed	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 succeed	advmod
13	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	conj
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 succeed	ccomp
16	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 had	advmod
17	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 drown	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 stream	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 stream	det
21	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drown	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	must	We				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	recover not said to happen	to-infinitive	We not said here	stream			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	not succeed a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	we				tree rules
4	have	past	we			well property	tree rules
5	drown	infinitive	we not said here	ourselves	this stream		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=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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