--- title: Don't be afraid, friend, I'll not eat thee; only save my life." " — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Don't be afraid, friend, I'll not eat thee; only save my life." " Who acts: I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/12/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/) / 12 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 12 Don't be afraid, friend, I'll not eat thee; only save my life." " **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** do, not be, not eat, save · **To what, where:** thee, life This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:7:12 # text = Don't be afraid, friend, I'll not eat thee; only save my life." " 1 Do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | friend *vocative*; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **eat** | future | I | thee | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | | 4 | **save** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my life | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/13/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/)