Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 62

Whereupon the tortoise wanted to say, "If my friends choose to carry me, what is that to you, you wretched slaves!"

Who acts: tortoise, friends, that, you · What happens: want, say, choose, carry, be, slave · To what, where: tortoise, you · 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 (tortoise, friends, that, 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	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wanted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tortoise	det
3	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 choose	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 choose	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 choose	mark
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friends	nmod:poss
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 choose	nsubj
12	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carry	mark
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 choose	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 wanted	parataxis
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	cop
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 what	nsubj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 what	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slaves	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 slaves	nsubj
24	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 slaves	amod
25	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	parataxis
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 slaves	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 slaves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	the tortoise			whereupon property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	say speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	the tortoise not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	choose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	my friends				tree rules
4	carry in a quote	to-infinitive	my friends not said here	the tortoise = tortoise			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present	that		you		tree rules
6	slave in a quote		you				tree rules

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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