---
title: Give me this child to wife; and if you will vow, by all you hold sac… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Give me this child to wife; and if you will vow, by all you hold sacred, never again to play chaupur for another's head, I will spare yours now!" Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/100/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/) / 100

# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 100

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Give me this child to wife; and if you will vow, by all you hold sacred, never again to play chaupur for another's head, I will spare yours now!"

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** give, vow, hold, play, spare · **To what, where:** child, me, chaupur, yours

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:21:100
# text = Give me this child to wife; and if you will vow, by all you hold sacred, never again to play chaupur for another's head, I will spare yours now!"
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	vow	vow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
33	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | this child | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=Theme |
| 2 | **vow** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you |  |  |  |  | by all | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | present | you |  |  |  |  | sacred *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | chaupur |  |  | again | for another's head | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme for head=Eventuality |
| 5 | **spare** | future | I | yours |  |  | now |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent your=Asset |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/99/)
- next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/101/)
- ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/)