Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 70
Or if needs you must stay; ere the next game you play, Place hand in your pocket, I pray!"
Who acts: you, I · What happens: need, stay, ere, play, pray · To what, where: Place hand, pocket, next game
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 (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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 needs | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 needs | mark |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | aux |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 needs | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 ere | punct |
| 8 | ere | ere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stay | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 game | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 game | amod |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ere | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 play | nsubj |
| 13 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 game | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hand | punct |
| 15 | Place | Place | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hand | compound |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pocket | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 19 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl | ||
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pray | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 pray | nsubj |
| 22 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 needs | advcl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | must | you | Place hand | your pocket | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pocket=Location | |||
| 3 | ere | infinitive | you not said here | the next game | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | play | present | you | the next game not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pray | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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