Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 63

Suppose you fell ill whilst he was out hunting and could therefore know nothing of your illness, what would you do then?"

Who acts: you, King · What happens: suppose, fall, hunt, know, do · To what, where: nothing · 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 (you, 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	Suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Suppose	ccomp
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	xcomp
5	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	9 hunting	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hunting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hunting	aux
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 was	compound:prt
9	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fell	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 know	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	conj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 know	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 illness	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 illness	nmod:poss
17	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nothing	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 do	obj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 nothing	parataxis
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 do	advmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fall	past	you			ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hunt	past · progressive	King				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	could	you not said here	nothing		therefore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	do	would	you		then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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