Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 11

"Thank you very much," the young man replied; "but let me first inquire, if you please, whether the beam of your house is strong."

Who acts: young man, you · What happens: thank, reply, let, inquire, be, beam · To what, where: you, man, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 Thank	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	nsubj
11	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Thank	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 inquire	advmod
18	inquire	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 let	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 strong	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 strong	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 strong	nsubj
22	please	please	INTJ	_	31 strong	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 strong	punct
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	31 strong	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beam	det
26	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 strong	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 house	nmod:poss
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beam	nmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 strong	cop
31	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 inquire	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	participle	the young man				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let in a quote	infinitive		man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	inquire speech: other in a quote	present				first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			strong property	tree rules
6	beam in a quote			your house			nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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