Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 10
Well," said Majnun, "if you can make yourself a young girl again, I will marry you."
Who acts: Majnun, you, I · What happens: say, make, marry · To what, where: yourself, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majnun, you, I), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | xcomp |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 make | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 marry | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 marry | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 marry | aux |
| 20 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 marry | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Majnun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen | can | you | yourself | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Product | |||
| 3 | marry | future | I | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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