Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 88
"How can you marry Laili?
Who acts: you · What happens: marry · To what, where: Laili
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 (you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 marry | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 marry | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | nsubj |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 marry | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | can | you | Laili | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laili=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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