Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 9
When I was in my father's kingdom a young girl, I knew of you, though you knew nothing of me, and we should have been married then if you had not gone away so suddenly, and for long, long years I followed you." "
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, know, marry, not go away, follow · To what, where: young girl, kingdom, nothing, we, you
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 (I, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 girl | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 girl | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 girl | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 kingdom | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 girl | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 girl | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knew | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 knew | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 knew | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 nothing | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 married | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 married | cc |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 married | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 married | aux |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 married | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 married | aux:pass |
| 30 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 knew | conj |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 married | advmod |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 gone | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 gone | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 gone | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 gone | advmod |
| 36 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 married | advcl |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 gone | advmod |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 suddenly | advmod |
| 39 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 36 gone | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 followed | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 followed | cc |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 years | case |
| 43 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 years | amod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 long | punct |
| 45 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 years | amod |
| 46 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 followed | obl |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 followed | nsubj |
| 48 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | conj |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 followed | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | a young girl | my father's kingdom | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | I | of you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | past | you | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | marry | should · perfect · passive | we | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not go away a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | you | away, suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | follow | past | I | you | year | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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