Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 118

I will climb to the window, and see whether there are any means of escape.

Who acts: I, any · What happens: climb, see, be, mean · To what, where: window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, any), 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 climb	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	aux
3	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climb	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 see	cc
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 climb	conj
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 are	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 are	expl
12	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 see	ccomp
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 means	nsubj
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 are	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 escape	case
16	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	climb	future	I	the window		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination
2	see	infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	present		there		tree rules
4	mean	present	any		of escape	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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