Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 12
"Beware," continued the prince, "lest you do that which afterwards you would give your life not to have done."
Who acts: you, that · What happens: beware, continue, do, give, not do · To what, where: prince, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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 | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 2 | Beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 continued | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 10 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 give | nsubj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 give | obj |
| 15 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 18 give | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 continued | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 done | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 done | aux |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 give | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware in a quote | infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | continue | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | would | that | your life | afterwards property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient life=Theme | |||
| 5 | not do in a quote | to-infinitive · perfect | that not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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