Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 23
If you have children, what will you give me?"
Who acts: you · What happens: have, give · To what, where: children, me
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 have | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | advcl |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 give | obj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | future | you | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/23/