Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 56

"We can take you, if you can only hold your tongue, and will say nothing to anybody."

Who acts: We, you · What happens: take, hold, say · To what, where: you, tongue, nothing, anybody · 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 (We, 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 take	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hold	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 hold	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 hold	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hold	aux
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 hold	advmod
11	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tongue	nmod:poss
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 say	cc
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 say	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 anybody	case
20	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 nothing	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	take in a quote	can	We		you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
2	hold a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	your tongue		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	future	We not said here	nothing	anybody	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to anybody=Recipient

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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