Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 14
"She will not fail to give them," said the cruel Queen, "if you show her this token on which I have written what I want done."
Who acts: matter, cruel Queen, you · What happens: not fail, give, say, show, write, do · To what, where: mothers, token, matter, cruel Queen · 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 (matter, cruel Queen, 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 | _ | 5 fail | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fail | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fail | advmod |
| 5 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fail | xcomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fail | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fail | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 13 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Queen | amod |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 show | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 show | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 show | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 show | nsubj |
| 19 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 show | iobj |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 token | det |
| 22 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 show | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 written | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 written | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 written | aux |
| 27 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 token | acl:relcl |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 done | obj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 done | nsubj |
| 30 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 done | aux:pass |
| 31 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 written | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail in a quote | future | matter | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | matter not said here | mothers = mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cruel Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | show a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | this token | matter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient token=Topic | |||
| 5 | write in a quote | present · perfect | the cruel Queen = queen | this token | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on which=Destination | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present · passive | the cruel Queen = queen | 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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