Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 36
Now, I promise to give you back your conch, and never to interfere with your using it, on one condition, which is this,--whatever you get from it, I am to get double."
Who acts: I, your, one condition, you · What happens: promise, give back, not interfere, use, be, get · To what, where: conch, you, this, whatever, double
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, your, one condition, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 get | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 promise | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 promise | nsubj |
| 4 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Now | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promise | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | back | back | ADP | _ | 6 give | compound:prt |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 conch | nmod:poss |
| 10 | conch | conch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 interfere | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 interfere | cc |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 interfere | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 interfere | mark |
| 15 | interfere | interfere | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 promise | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 using | mark |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 using | nsubj |
| 18 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 interfere | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 using | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 condition | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 condition | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 condition | nummod |
| 23 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 interfere | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 this | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 this | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 this | cop |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 condition | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 get | punct |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 get | punct |
| 30 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 get | obj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 get | nsubj |
| 32 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 condition | conj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 get | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 get | nsubj |
| 37 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 get | aux |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 get | mark |
| 39 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 40 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 get | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 get | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give back not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | your conch | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient conch=Theme | |||
| 3 | not interfere | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | use | gerund | your | conch | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | one condition | this | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get | present | you | whatever | conch | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme from it=Source | |||
| 7 | get | present | I | double | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer double=Stimulus |
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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