Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 63
I want to marry you," she answered. "
Who acts: I, Laili · What happens: want, marry, answer · To what, where: you
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 (I, Laili), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 marry | mark |
| 4 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 marry | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 marry | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Laili | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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