Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 18

Oh!" said the Prince, "I wonder shall I find my wife in that fruit."

Who acts: Prince, I · What happens: say, wonder, find · To what, where: wife, fruit · 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 (Prince, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wonder	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 wonder	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wonder	nsubj
10	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wonder	ccomp
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 fruit	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 fruit	det
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wonder speech: ask	present	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	find	shall	I	my wife	that fruit	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic

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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