Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 84
The next time you go to see her, I entreat you to take some snow with you; and just before seeing the princess put a little of it into both your eyes.
Who acts: you, I, seeing · What happens: go, see, entreat, take, put · To what, where: Heaven, you, snow, princess, little, eyes
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, seeing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entreat | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 entreat | nsubj |
| 11 | entreat | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 entreat | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 entreat | xcomp |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 snow | det |
| 16 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 seeing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seeing | cc |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 seeing | advmod |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 seeing | mark |
| 23 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 put | csubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 princess | det |
| 25 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seeing | obj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 little | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 put | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 little | nmod |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 eyes | case |
| 32 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 eyes | det:predet |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 put | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | you | time | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | Heaven | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | entreat | present | I | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | I not said here | some snow | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | gerund | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | put | past | seeing | a little of snow | your eyes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent little=Goal |
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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