Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 19
He only wishes to know if you can afford to entertain him."
Who acts: man, you · What happens: wish, know, afford, entertain · To what, where: man
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wishes | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 wishes | advmod |
| 3 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wishes | xcomp |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 afford | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 afford | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 afford | aux |
| 9 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 entertain | mark |
| 11 | entertain | entertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 afford | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 entertain | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wishes | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | man | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | afford a condition, not said to happen | can | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | entertain | to-infinitive | you not said here | man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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