Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 83
Now do what I tell you; don't behave in this way just for seeing a little fish."
Who acts: I · What happens: tell, not behave, see · To what, where: you, way, little fish · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | 3 what | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | aux |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 behave | punct |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 behave | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 behave | advmod |
| 10 | behave | behave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 behave | obl |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 seeing | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 seeing | mark |
| 16 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 behave | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seeing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not behave | infinitive · do-support | this way | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | a little fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |
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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