Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 52
Surely," said he, "this man must be her husband, as he only can live with her."
Who acts: prince, man · What happens: say, be, live · To what, where: husband · 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 (prince, man), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Surely | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 husband | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 husband | punct |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 husband | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 husband | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 husband | cop |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 live | nsubj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 live | advmod |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 live | aux |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 live | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | prince | surely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | this man | princess's husband | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | can | prince | with princess | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
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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