Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 30

Now you must let me put a red-hot pice on the back of each of you, and then I will give you food and water.

Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, put, give · To what, where: me, hot pice, back, food, you

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 (you, me, I), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 let	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pice	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hot	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 red	punct
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pice	amod
11	pice	pice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 back	det
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 back	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 each	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 give	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 give	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 water	cc
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 food	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	let	must	you	me			now	tree rules
2	put	infinitive	me not said here	a hot pice		the back of each		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pice=Theme on back=Destination
3	give	future	I	food and water	you		then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient food=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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