Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 50
Turn me not back, if you love me."
Who acts: you · What happens: not turn back, love · To what, where: me
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 (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 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Turn | obj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Turn | advmod |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Turn | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 love | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 love | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 love | nsubj |
| 8 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 love | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turn | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not turn back | imperative | you not said here | me | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | love a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/27/50/