Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 40
If you desert me like this, I will tell the Princess Labam."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: desert, tell · To what, where: me, Princess Labam · 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 (you, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 desert | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 desert | nsubj |
| 3 | desert | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 desert | obj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 desert | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 desert | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Labam | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Labam | compound |
| 13 | Labam | Labam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desert a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | like this | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme i=Source | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | I | the Princess Labam | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent labam=Recipient |
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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