Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 24

I don't suppose you could tell me which way to go?"

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not suppose, tell, go · To what, where: way, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 suppose	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suppose	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 suppose	advmod
4	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 suppose	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 way	acl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 suppose	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not suppose	present · do-support	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	could	you	which way	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic
3	go	to-infinitive	you not said here	which way not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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