Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 11
If we allow her to come here, we shall suffer for it some day."
Who acts: we · What happens: allow, come, suffer · To what, where: Balna
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 3 allow | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 allow | nsubj |
| 3 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 suffer | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 allow | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allow | xcomp |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 allow | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 suffer | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 suffer | aux |
| 11 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 suffer | obl |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suffer | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 suffer | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow a condition, not said to happen | present | we | Balna | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suffer | shall | we | day | for house | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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