Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 73

Do try if he really will come to you when you beat your kettle-drum."

Who acts: you, King · What happens: try, come, beat · To what, where: you, kettle drum

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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 try	aux
2	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 try	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 come	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 beat	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 beat	nsubj
12	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	advcl
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 drum	nmod:poss
14	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drum	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 kettle	punct
16	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beat	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 try	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	try	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	come a condition, not said to happen	future	King		you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
3	beat	present	you	your kettle drum		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=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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