Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 33

He only asked you to cut a couple of sticks and be careful not to lose his knife."

Who acts: man · What happens: ask, cut, be, not lose · To what, where: you, couple, knife

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), 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 asked	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 asked	advmod
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cut	mark
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 couple	det
8	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 sticks	case
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 couple	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 careful	cc
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 careful	cop
13	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cut	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 lose	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lose	mark
16	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 careful	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 knife	nmod:poss
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lose	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	man		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cut not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	a couple of sticks			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset couple=Product
3	is	infinitive	man not said here			careful property	tree rules
4	not lose	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's knife			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Eventuality

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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