Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 63
And if I do not take the oil to the king to-morrow morning, he will kill me."
Who acts: I, king · What happens: not take, kill · To what, where: oil, king, me
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 (I, king), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kill | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 take | advmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 kill | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oil | det |
| 8 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 morning | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 morning | compound |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kill | aux |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | the oil | the king | morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oil=Theme to king=Destination | ||
| 2 | kill | future | king | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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