Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 22
You could hardly expect me to bring a collection of good things for you, when I merely went out for my own pleasure."
Who acts: You, me, I, my · What happens: expect, bring, go out, please · To what, where: me, collection
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, me, I, my), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 expect | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 expect | advmod |
| 4 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 expect | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 expect | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 collection | det |
| 9 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 collection | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 went | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 18 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 went | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 pleasure | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pleasure | amod |
| 24 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | could | You | me | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | a collection of good things | for you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent collection=Theme | |||
| 3 | go out | past | I | for my own pleasure; merely property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | please | my | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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