Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 101
Fear not, my brother, but go and take this necklace, and try to sell it in the bazaar."
Who acts: Fear · What happens: go, take, try, sell · To what, where: necklace, bazaar
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fear), 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 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | nsubj |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Fear | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fear | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 necklace | det |
| 12 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 try | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 try | cc |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sell | mark |
| 17 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 try | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sell | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bazaar | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bazaar | det |
| 21 | bazaar | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | Fear and my brother | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | Fear and my brother not said here | this necklace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | necklace | the bazaar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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