Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 79
If ever you are in trouble, think of me and we will come to you."
Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, think, come · To what, where: trouble, you
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, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 ever | mark |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 trouble | advcl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 trouble | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 think | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 come | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trouble | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | of me | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | future | we | you | 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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