Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 22
She told him she was the Malee's daughter, and the Magician said, "You are a pretty little girl, and to-morrow you shall take a present of flowers from me to the beautiful lady who lives in the tower."
Who acts: Magician, Prince, beautiful lady · What happens: tell, be, say, take, live · To what, where: Prince, daughter, pretty little girl, present, morrow, tower · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician, Prince, beautiful lady), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 daughter | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Malee | det |
| 7 | Malee | Malee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Malee | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Magician | det |
| 13 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 girl | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 girl | punct |
| 17 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 girl | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 girl | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 20 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 take | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 take | cc |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 morrow | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 to | punct |
| 27 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 take | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 take | aux |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 present | det |
| 32 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 flowers | case |
| 34 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 present | nmod |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 take | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 lady | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lady | det |
| 39 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 lady | amod |
| 40 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obl |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 lives | nsubj |
| 42 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 lady | acl:relcl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 tower | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 tower | det |
| 45 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lives | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 take | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Magician | Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Magician | the Malee's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Prince | a pretty little girl | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | shall | Prince | a present of flowers | morrow | from Magician; to the beautiful lady | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent present=Theme to morrow=Destination from i=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | live in a quote | present | the beautiful lady | the tower | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location |
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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