Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 79
And as they were going through it, Khuda thought, "I should like to know how much Prince Majnun loves his wife.
Who acts: servants, Khuda, Majnun · What happens: go, think, like, know, love · To what, where: jungle, wife · 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 (servants, Khuda, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 going | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 thought | advcl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 going | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 9 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 like | xcomp |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Prince | amod |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 loves | nsubj |
| 22 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | ccomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 loves | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | servants = servant | jungle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Khuda | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | should | Khuda | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Khuda not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | love in a quote | present | Majnun much Prince | Majnun's wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
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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