Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 13

Let her take some fire if she likes."

Who acts: you, Balna · What happens: let, take, like · To what, where: Balna, fire

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 (you, Balna), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 likes	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 likes	nsubj
8	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	Balna	tree rules
2	take	infinitive	Balna not said here	some fire	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	like a condition, not said to happen	present	Balna		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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