Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 2
Will you take great care of whatever I give you?"
Who acts: you, I, whatever · What happens: take, give, care · To what, where: great care, you
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, whatever), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 care | amod |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 whatever | case |
| 7 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 care | nmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | you | great care of whatever | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | present | I | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | care | whatever | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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