Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 77

"I want nothing," she answered; "I only wished to know if you really would come to me when I beat my drum."

Who acts: story, you · What happens: want, answer, wish, know, come, beat · To what, where: nothing, story, drum · 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 (story, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 want	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 answered	nsubj
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 want	parataxis
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 wished	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 wished	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wished	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 wished	advmod
13	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 know	mark
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wished	xcomp
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
18	really	really	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 beat	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 beat	nsubj
25	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	advcl
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 drum	nmod:poss
27	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 beat	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	story	nothing		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	story			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wish in a quote	past	story			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	story not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	you		story	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
6	beat in a quote	present	story	my 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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