Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 115
Do not be afraid," said the princess; "do as I bid you, and you will cut it in two quite easily."
Who acts: you, princess, I · What happens: not be, say, do, bid, cut · To what, where: you, trunk, two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess, 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 afraid | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 bid | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bid | nsubj |
| 15 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 bid | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cut | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cut | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 cut | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 cut | aux |
| 21 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cut | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 two | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 cut | obl |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 easily | advmod |
| 26 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 21 cut | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative · do-support | you not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | present | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bid | past | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cut | future | you | trunk | two | easily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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