Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 99

If I can, I will," said the Raja's son.

What happens: say · To what, where: son · 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: 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 can	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 can	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 will	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 can	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Raja	det
11	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 son	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Raja	case
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the Raja's son					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent son=Topic

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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