Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 93
She introduced herself to the beautiful princess and said, "I am your aunt, whom you have never seen before, because I left the country just after your birth."
Who acts: woman, you · What happens: introduce, say, be, not see, leave · To what, where: woman, aunt, country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 introduced | nsubj |
| 2 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 introduced | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 princess | amod |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 introduced | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 introduced | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 aunt | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 aunt | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 aunt | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 aunt | cop |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 15 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 seen | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 seen | advmod |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 aunt | acl:relcl |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 seen | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 left | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 left | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 left | nsubj |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 left | obj |
| 29 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 birth | advmod |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 birth | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 birth | nmod:poss |
| 32 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 left | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 introduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | past | woman | woman | to the beautiful princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient to princess=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | woman | your aunt | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see in a quote | present · perfect | you | your aunt | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | leave in a quote | past | woman | the country | after your birth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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