Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 47

I'll send on ahead a present to the man, to show him that we can afford to have him for our guest."

Who acts: I, we · What happens: send on, show, afford, have · To what, where: present, 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 (I, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 send	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 send	aux
3	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 send	compound:prt
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 send	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 present	det
7	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 send	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 send	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 show	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 show	mark
13	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 send	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 show	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 afford	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 afford	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 afford	aux
18	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 show	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 have	mark
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 afford	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 have	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 guest	case
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 guest	nmod:poss
24	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 send	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send on	future	I	a present	the man	ahead property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent present=Theme to man=Destination
2	show	to-infinitive			man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	afford	can	we				tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	we not said here	man		for our guest	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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