Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 83
I don't want to say anything to you, or to see you.
Who acts: I · What happens: not want, say, see · To what, where: anything, you · 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), 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 | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 say | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | anything | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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.
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