Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 56

He went, therefore, to the gardener and told him he wished to marry his daughter.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: go, tell, wish, marry · To what, where: Boy, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 therefore	punct
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gardener	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 gardener	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gardener	det
8	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wished	nsubj
13	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 marry	mark
15	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wished	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 marry	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Boy			to the gardener; therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gardener=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	Boy not said here		Boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	wish	past	Boy				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Boy not said here	Boy's daughter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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