Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 35
But stop your barking, or you will frighten away the bird to some place where we shall not be able to trace it."
Who acts: you, we · What happens: stop, frighten away, not be, trace · To what, where: barking, bird
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 (you, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 stop | cc |
| 2 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 barking | nmod:poss |
| 4 | barking | barking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stop | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 frighten | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 frighten | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 frighten | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 frighten | aux |
| 9 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stop | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 frighten | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frighten | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frighten | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 able | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 able | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 able | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 able | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 trace | mark |
| 23 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 trace | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stop | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | your barking | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality barking=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | frighten away | future | you | the bird | to some place; away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | not is | shall | we | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | trace | to-infinitive | we not said here | bird | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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