Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 69
If you wish to do so, you must first fight with my two demons and kill them."
Who acts: you · What happens: wish, do, fight, kill · To what, where: demons
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), 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 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fight | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 fight | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fight | aux |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 fight | advmod |
| 11 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 demons | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 demons | nmod:poss |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 demons | nummod |
| 15 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fight | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kill | cc |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fight | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fight | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fight | must | you | with my two demons; first property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with demon=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | you not said here | demons = demon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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