Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 37

Let us drive her away, or hide the pomeloes, else she will go and tell her mother all about it, and that will be very bad for us."

Who acts: you, us, Balna, that · What happens: let, drive away, hide, go, tell, be · To what, where: us, Balna, pomeloes, mother · 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 (you, us, Balna, that), 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	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drive	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 drive	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hide	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 hide	cc
8	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pomeloes	det
10	pomeloes	pomeloe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hide	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
12	else	else	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tell	cc
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 go	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obj
20	all	all	ADV	_	17 tell	advmod
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bad	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bad	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 bad	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bad	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 bad	cop
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 bad	advmod
29	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	parataxis
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 us	case
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 bad	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
2	drive away	infinitive	us not said here	Balna		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	hide	infinitive	you not said here	the pomeloes			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomeloe=Patient
4	go	future	Balna			else property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Balna not said here		Balna's mother	about grave; all property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient about it=Topic
6	is	future	that			for us; bad property	tree rules

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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