Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 78
"Very well," answered the King; "but do not call me again unless you really need me."
Who acts: King, you · What happens: answer, not call, need · To what, where: King · 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 (King, 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 call | cc |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 call | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 call | advmod |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 call | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 call | advmod |
| 17 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 20 need | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 need | nsubj |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 need | advmod |
| 20 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 call | advcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 need | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the King | well property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not call in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the King not said here | the King = king | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | need a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the King = king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=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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