Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 92
Now fear not to execute these instructions, because on the fulfilment of them depends your fortune and happiness.
What happens: fear, not execute, depend, fulfil · To what, where: instructions, fortune, fulfilment
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 fear | advmod |
| 2 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 execute | csubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 execute | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 execute | mark |
| 5 | execute | execute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 instructions | det |
| 7 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 execute | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 depends | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 depends | mark |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fulfilment | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fulfilment | det |
| 12 | fulfilment | fulfilment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 depends | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fulfilment | nmod |
| 15 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 execute | parataxis |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 depends | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 happiness | cc |
| 19 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fortune | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 execute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | infinitive | now | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not execute | to-infinitive | this instructions | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Patient | |||||
| 3 | depend | present | your fortune and happiness | the fulfilment of instructions | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fulfil | instructions = instruction | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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