Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 39

The girl would never be so cruel as to tell her mother.

Who acts: girl · What happens: not be, tell · To what, where: 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 (girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cruel	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cruel	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 cruel	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 cruel	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 cruel	advmod
7	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 tell	mark
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tell	mark
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cruel	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cruel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	the girl					cruel property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the girl not said here		Balna's mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient

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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