Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 65
Should I ever be in trouble or sick while you are away, how could I send for you?"
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, send · To what, where: trouble
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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 trouble | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 trouble | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trouble | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 sick | cc |
| 8 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trouble | amod |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 away | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 away | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 away | cop |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 sick | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 send | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 send | advmod |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 send | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 send | nsubj |
| 17 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trouble | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 send | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 send | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | I | trouble | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | could | I | for you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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