Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 109
Permit me, and I will show you where he is."
Who acts: you, I, prince · What happens: permit, show, be · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, I, prince), 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 | Permit | permit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Permit | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 show | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 show | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 show | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 show | aux |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Permit | parataxis |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 show | iobj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 is | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 is | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 show | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Permit | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Permit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | imperative | you not said here | me | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | present | prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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