Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 58
So they said "Yes" to the King, and invited all their friends to the wedding.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: say, invite · To what, where: King, friends · 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 (daughters), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yes | punct |
| 5 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 said | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yes | punct |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 invited | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 invited | cc |
| 12 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 friends | det:predet |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friends | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 invited | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 wedding | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wedding | det |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 invited | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | daughters = daughter | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to king=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | invite | past | daughters = daughter not said here | daughters's friends | to the wedding | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
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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