Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 77

Never mind," he said, "I won't eat the sweetmeats; the ants shall eat them."

Who acts: you, prince, I, ants · What happens: not mind, say, not eat, eat · To what, where: sweetmeats · 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, prince, I, ants), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 mind	advmod
2	mind	mind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mind	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 mind	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mind	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 eat	advmod
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sweetmeats	det
14	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ants	det
17	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	aux
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mind	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eat	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not mind	imperative	you not said here		vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not eat	future	I	the sweetmeats	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Patient
4	eat	shall	the ants	sweetmeats = sweetmeat	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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