Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 42

Upon this the Jogi began to shiver and shake (for no Jinn or Jogi dares disobey King Indra's command), and, falling at the lad's feet, cried, "If you will spare me I will give you anything I possess, even my beautiful white cow!"

Who acts: you, I, King · What happens: begin, shiver, shake, disobey, fall, cry · To what, where: command, feet, beautiful white cow, me, anything, you · 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, King), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	4 Jogi	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Jogi	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Jogi	det
4	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shiver	mark
7	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shake	cc
9	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shiver	conj
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 disobey	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	16 dares	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 dares	det
13	Jinn	Jinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 dares	compound
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 Jogi	cc
15	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Jinn	conj
16	dares	dare	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 disobey	obl
17	disobey	disobey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shake	parataxis
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 command	nmod:poss
19	Indra	Indra	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 King	flat
20	's	's	PART	_	18 King	case
21	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 disobey	obj
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 disobey	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 falling	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 falling	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 falling	punct
26	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 began	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	31 feet	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lad	det
29	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 feet	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 lad	case
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 falling	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cried	punct
33	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 spare	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 spare	punct
36	If	if	SCONJ	_	39 spare	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 spare	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 spare	aux
39	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 cried	conj
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 spare	obj
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 give	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 give	aux
43	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 spare	conj
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 give	iobj
45	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 give	obj
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 possess	nsubj
47	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 anything	acl:relcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 cow	punct
49	even	even	ADV	_	53 cow	advmod
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 cow	nmod:poss
51	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 cow	amod
52	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 cow	amod
53	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cried	obl
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	53 cow	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 cow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past					upon the Jogi	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shiver	to-infinitive						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	shake	infinitive						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	disobey	present		King's command			for no Jinn dares	tree rules
5	fall	gerund				the lad's feet		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location
6	cry speech: express	past		my beautiful white cow				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	spare a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	me				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset
8	give in a quote	future	I	anything	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Theme
9	possess in a quote	present	I					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
10	command		King					nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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