Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 27

"Well," said the young prince, "I will give you something to eat and drink if you will do as I bid you." "

Who acts: young prince, you · What happens: say, give, eat, drink, do, bid · To what, where: something, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young prince, 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 prince	amod
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 give	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 something	acl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drink	cc
19	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 eat	conj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 do	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 drink	ccomp
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 bid	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 bid	nsubj
26	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 do	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 bid	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the young prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	future	the young prince = prince	something	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme
3	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	the young prince = prince not said here	something not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink in a quote	infinitive	the young prince = prince not said here			tree rules
5	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bid in a quote	past	the young prince = prince	you		tree rules

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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