--- title: And if I do not take the oil to the king to-morrow morning, he will… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And if I do not take the oil to the king to-morrow morning, he will kill me." Who acts: I, king. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, 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/pg7128/8/63/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/) / 63 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 63 And if I do not take the oil to the king to-morrow morning, he will kill me." **Who acts:** I, king · **What happens:** not take, kill · **To what, where:** oil, king, me This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king), 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:pg7128:8:63 # text = And if I do not take the oil to the king to-morrow morning, he will kill me." 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | I | the oil | the king | | morning | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oil=Theme to king=Destination | | 2 | **kill** | future | king | me | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/64/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/)