Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 43
Only give me suitable garments, and prepare me for the occasion."
Who acts: you · What happens: give, prepare · To what, where: suitable garments, me
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), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 give | advmod |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 give | iobj |
| 4 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 garments | amod |
| 5 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prepare | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 prepare | cc |
| 8 | prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 prepare | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 occasion | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 occasion | det |
| 12 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prepare | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | suitable garments | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient garment=Theme | |||
| 2 | prepare | infinitive | you not said here | me | for the occasion | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Product for occasion=Beneficiary |
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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