Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 3

"Let me see what it is," said Suri, "I will take care of it if I can."

Who acts: Suri, care · What happens: let, see, be, say, take · To what, where: Suri, care · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Suri, care), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 see	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 what	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Suri	Suri	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
17	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 take	obl
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 can	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 can	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		Suri		tree rules
2	see in a quote	infinitive	Suri not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a in a quote	present	care			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Suri			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take in a quote	future	Suri	care	of care	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location

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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