Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 26

"No, I will not," said the dog, "unless you let me have the ring.

Who acts: dog, you · What happens: say, let, have · To what, where: dog, ring · 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 (dog, 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	_	5 will	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 will	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 will	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 will	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
14	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	16 let	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ring	det
20	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dog		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	the dog = dog	tree rules
3	have in a quote	infinitive	the dog = dog not said here	the ring	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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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