Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 24
But Balna replied, "If you let her come here so often, maybe she will do us some harm, and make us sorry for it, some day."
Who acts: Balna, you · What happens: reply, let, come, do, make · To what, where: Balna, harm, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Balna, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 replied | cc |
| 2 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 6 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 let | nsubj |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 often | advmod |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 15 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 18 do | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 do | iobj |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 harm | det |
| 21 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | parataxis |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 make | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sorry | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 day | punct |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 day | det |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Balna | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | Balna | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | here | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | Balna | some harm | us | maybe property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | make in a quote | infinitive | us | day | sorry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product |
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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