Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 108
Seeing no escape from the difficulty, she consented on the condition that he would wait one month for her.
Who acts: princess, house · What happens: see, consent, wait · To what, where: escape, difficulty, condition
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, house), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 consented | advcl |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 escape | det |
| 3 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 difficulty | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 difficulty | det |
| 6 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 consented | nsubj |
| 9 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 condition | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 condition | det |
| 12 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consented | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 wait | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wait | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 wait | aux |
| 16 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 consented | advcl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 month | nummod |
| 18 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wait | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | princess not said here | no escape | the difficulty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer escape=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | consent | past | princess | the condition | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wait | would | house | month | for princess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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