Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 23

The inhabitants nearly went wild with joy, but the son of seven Queens said he would not marry the Princess unless they first let him recover his mothers' eyes.

Who acts: inhabitants, son · What happens: go, say, not marry, let, recover · To what, where: Princess, son, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, son), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inhabitants	det
2	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 joy	case
7	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 son	det
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Queens	case
13	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 Queens	nummod
14	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 son	nmod
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 marry	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 marry	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 marry	advmod
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Princess	det
21	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marry	obj
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	25 let	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 let	nsubj
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 let	advmod
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 marry	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mothers	nmod:poss
29	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 eyes	nmod:poss
30	'	's	PART	_	29 mothers	case
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 recover	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the inhabitants		with joy; nearly, wild property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with joy=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	the son of seven Queens			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not marry	would	son	the Princess		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
4	let a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	inhabitants = inhabitant	son	first property	tree rules
5	recover	infinitive	son not said here	son's mothers's eyes		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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