Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 11

Give me the pigeon, my dear, and I faithfully promise to show you where to find them."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, promise, show, find · To what, where: pigeon, me, you, pigeons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pigeon	det
4	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dear	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dear	nmod:poss
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Give	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 promise	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 promise	nsubj
11	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	12 promise	advmod
12	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 show	mark
14	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 promise	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 show	iobj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 find	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 show	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	the pigeon	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pigeon=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	present	I			faithfully property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	find	to-infinitive		pigeons = pigeon			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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