Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 100

Then he said good-bye to the tigers, and the tiger said to him, "If ever you are in trouble, think of me, and we will come to you."

Who acts: son, tiger, we · What happens: say, be, think, come · To what, where: good bye, tigers, son, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, tiger, we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bye	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
6	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 tigers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tigers	det
9	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tiger	det
13	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
19	If	if	SCONJ	_	24 trouble	mark
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 trouble	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 trouble	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 trouble	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 trouble	case
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 think	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 trouble	punct
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 think	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 come	cc
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 think	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 come	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	son	good bye	the tigers		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to tiger=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the tiger		son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	son			trouble	ever		tree rules
4	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive						of the tiger = tiger	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come in a quote	future	we		son				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location

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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