Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 28

We will do all you tell us to do," they answered, "for if we do not get water to drink, we shall die." "

Who acts: We, you, daughters, water · What happens: do, tell, answer, not get, drink, die · To what, where: all, us, water · 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 (We, you, daughters, water), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 do	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 all	acl:relcl
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 answered	nsubj
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 do	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 get	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 get	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 get	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 get	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 get	advmod
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 answered	ccomp
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 drink	mark
24	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 get	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 die	punct
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 die	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 die	aux
28	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 do	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 die	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 die	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	future	We	all		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present	you		us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	daughters = daughter			tree rules
5	not get a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	we	water		tree rules
6	drink	to-infinitive	water not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	die	shall	we			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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