Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 26
She answered, "I am the daughter of the king of the Phalana country, and I want to find Prince Majnun; tell me where his kingdom is."
Who acts: Laili, kingdom · What happens: answer, be, want, find, tell · To what, where: daughter, Prince, Laili · 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 (Laili, kingdom), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 daughter | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 daughter | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 daughter | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | Phalana | Phalana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 country | compound |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 want | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 want | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 want | xcomp |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 23 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Prince | flat |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | iobj |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 tell | ccomp |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 where | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 where | cop |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Laili | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Laili | the daughter | of the king of the Phalana country | tree rules | |||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | Laili | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Laili not said here | Prince | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Laili | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Prince's kingdom | where property | tree rules |
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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