Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 1

One day, when they were grown two fine young men, Prince Majnun said to his father, "Husain Mahamat and I should like to go and hunt."

Who acts: Majnun · What happens: grow, say, like, go, hunt · To what, where: they, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majnun), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grown	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 grown	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grown	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grown	aux:pass
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grown	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Majnun	nmod:desc
14	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 men	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 father	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Husain	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Husain	punct
21	Husain	Husain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 father	appos
22	Mahamat	Mahamat	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Husain	flat
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 like	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 like	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 like	aux
26	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 like	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hunt	cc
30	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grown	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	grow	past · passive		they		day	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary man=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	Majnun Prince		Majnun's father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient
3	like in a quote	should	Majnun Prince = majnun				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Majnun Prince = majnun not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hunt in a quote	infinitive	Majnun Prince = majnun not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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