Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 5
However, when he saw that his son was really in great terror, and that he really believed the old woman would came back at night, he advised him to say to her, "I will marry you if you can make yourself a young girl again.
Who acts: man, son, old woman, prince, woman · What happens: see, be, believe, come back, advise, say · To what, where: great terror, prince, woman · 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 (man, son, old woman, prince), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 terror | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 terror | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 terror | cop |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 terror | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 terror | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 terror | amod |
| 13 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 believed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 believed | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 believed | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 believed | nsubj |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 believed | advmod |
| 19 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 came | aux |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 believed | parataxis |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 advised | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 advised | nsubj |
| 30 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 advised | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 say | mark |
| 33 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 advised | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 her | case |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 say | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 marry | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 marry | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 marry | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 marry | aux |
| 40 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 say | conj |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 marry | obj |
| 42 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 make | mark |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 make | nsubj |
| 44 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 make | aux |
| 45 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 marry | advcl |
| 46 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 45 make | obj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 girl | det |
| 48 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 girl | amod |
| 49 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 make | xcomp |
| 50 | again | again | ADV | _ | 45 make | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | man's son | great terror | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | believe | past | man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come back | would | the old woman | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | advise speech: other | past | man | prince | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | marry in a quote | future | prince | woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 8 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | woman | woman | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Product |
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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