Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 33

"Is that all?" quoth the cricket; "had I known how small a job you wanted me to do, I would not have assembled so many of my brethren."

Who acts: Rasalu, you · What happens: be, know, want, do, not assemble · To what, where: Rasalu, many · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu, 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	_	7 quoth	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quoth	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 quoth	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 quoth	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
7	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cricket	det
9	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quoth	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 quoth	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 known	punct
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 known	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 known	nsubj
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 quoth	parataxis
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 small	advmod
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 known	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 job	det
18	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 small	nsubj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 job	acl:relcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 assembled	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 assembled	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 assembled	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 assembled	advmod
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 assembled	aux
29	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 small	conj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 many	advmod
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 assembled	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 brethren	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 brethren	nmod:poss
34	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 many	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 quoth	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			quoth property	tree rules
2	know in a quote	past · perfect	Rasalu		small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	want in a quote	past	you	Rasalu		tree rules
4	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Rasalu not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not assemble in a quote	would · perfect	Rasalu	many of my brethren		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent many=Theme

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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