Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 42
I will exchange places with your son, and will be married to the princess instead of him.
Who acts: I · What happens: exchange, marry · To what, where: places
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 exchange | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 exchange | aux |
| 3 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 exchange | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 son | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exchange | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 married | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 married | cc |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 married | aux:pass |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 exchange | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 married | obl |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 18 him | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 instead | fixed |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 married | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exchange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exchange | future | I | places | with your son | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent place=Theme with son=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | marry | future · passive | I not said here | to the princess; instead son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to princess=Co-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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