Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 34
"Pardon me," said the prince, "but I should like to know the reason."
Who acts: you, prince, potter · What happens: pardon, say, like, know · To what, where: prince, reason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince, potter), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 2 | Pardon | pardon | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Pardon | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Pardon | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 like | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | aux |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Pardon | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 like | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 reason | det |
| 18 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 know | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the prince = prince | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | should | the potter = potter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the potter = potter not said here | the reason | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
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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