Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 95

Sceptre and empire have no power to charm me-- I go to seek a worthier prize than they!"

Who acts: Sceptre, I · What happens: have, go, seek · To what, where: power, worthier prize

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sceptre, 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	Sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 empire	cc
3	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sceptre	conj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 power	det
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 me	mark
8	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 me	compound
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 power	appos
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 seek	mark
14	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 prize	det
16	worthier	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 prize	amod
17	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seek	obj
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 they	case
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seek	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Sceptre and empire	no power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	go	present	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seek	to-infinitive	I not said here	a worthier prize	than Sceptre	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=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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