Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 59

Let us sit round the edge of the tank and not allow her to see it, for if we give her some of our cake, she will go and tell her mother; and that will be very unfortunate for us."

Who acts: you, us, we, some, that · What happens: let, sit, not allow, see, give, go · To what, where: us, mother, tank · 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, we, some), 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	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 edge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tank	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tank	det
9	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 allow	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 allow	advmod
12	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 allow	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 allow	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 give	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 give	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
21	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 go	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 cake	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 cake	nmod:poss
26	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 some	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 give	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tell	cc
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 go	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mother	nmod:poss
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tell	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 unfortunate	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 unfortunate	cc
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 unfortunate	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 unfortunate	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 unfortunate	cop
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 unfortunate	advmod
41	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	parataxis
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 us	case
43	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 unfortunate	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
45	"	"	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	sit	infinitive	us not said here			round the edge of the tank	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not allow	infinitive	us not said here		mother		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	us not said here	tank			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	give a condition, not said to happen	present	we		mother		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	go	future	some				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	infinitive	some not said here		mother's mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
8	is	future	that			for us; unfortunate 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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