Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 82

He wished to go and see his elder brother first, and then to return and marry the princess.

Who acts: hand · What happens: wish, go, see, return, marry · To what, where: elder brother, princess

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
8	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 see	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 return	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 return	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 return	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 return	mark
15	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 marry	cc
17	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 return	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marry	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	hand				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	hand not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	hand not said here	hand's elder brother		first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
4	return	to-infinitive			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	marry	infinitive		the princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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