Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 126
"Don't you think it would be pleasanter if you and I sometimes gave one another a lift?" said the youth.
Who acts: you, way, youth · What happens: not do, think, be, give, say · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, way, youth), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | advcl |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pleasanter | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pleasanter | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pleasanter | cop |
| 9 | pleasanter | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 said | ccomp |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 gave | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 I | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 you | conj |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 gave | advmod |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pleasanter | advcl |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 gave | obj |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 one | fixed |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lift | det |
| 19 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleasanter | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleasanter | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 youth | det |
| 24 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | would | way | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | one | sometimes property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient lift=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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