Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 96
Heaven forbid that I should ever leave him, or marry you."
Who acts: Heaven, I · What happens: forbid, leave, marry · To what, where: Heaven, you
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 (Heaven, I), 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 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 forbid | nsubj |
| 2 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | aux |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 leave | advmod |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 forbid | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 marry | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 marry | cc |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 forbid | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 marry | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forbid | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 forbid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | infinitive | Heaven | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 2 | leave | should | I | Heaven | ever | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | marry | infinitive | Heaven not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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