Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 33
Tell him you have given up all hopes of again seeing the husband you have so long mourned, and say you are willing to marry him.
Who acts: you, hopes, husband · What happens: tell, give up, see, mourn, say, be · To what, where: son, hopes, husband, you · 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 (you, hopes, husband), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 given | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 given | compound:prt |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hopes | det |
| 8 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 given | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 seeing | mark |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 seeing | advmod |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hopes | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 husband | det |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seeing | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 mourned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 mourned | aux |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 mourned | advmod |
| 18 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 husband | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 say | cc |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 willing | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 willing | cop |
| 24 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 say | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 marry | mark |
| 26 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 willing | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 marry | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give up | present · perfect | you | all hopes | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | all hopes not said here | the husband | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | mourn | present · perfect · passive | the husband not said here | you | long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | you | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | marry | to-infinitive | you not said here | son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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