Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 23
"Fair maiden, I come from afar, Sworn conqueror in love and in war!
Who acts: smiling · What happens: come, swear · To what, where: Fair maiden, afar
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smiling), 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 | _ | 3 maiden | punct |
| 2 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 afar | case |
| 8 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 conqueror | punct |
| 10 | Sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 conqueror | amod |
| 11 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maiden | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conqueror | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 war | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 love | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | smiling | Fair maiden and Sworn conqueror in love and war not said here | afar | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme | |||
| 2 | swear in a quote | participle | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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