Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 103

The last three nights I have gone into the King's garden and sung a song, and each night the youngest princess has come to me and asked me who I am, and whence I came, and I have answered nothing.

Who acts: last three nights, youngest princess, I · What happens: go, sing, come, ask, be, answer · To what, where: garden, song, me, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last three nights, youngest princess, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nights	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nights	amod
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nights	nummod
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gone	nsubj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 garden	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 King	case
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sung	cc
14	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 gone	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 song	det
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sung	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl:unmarked
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 princess	det
22	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 princess	amod
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 gone	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 come	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 asked	iobj
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	29 asked	ccomp
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 who	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 who	cop
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 came	cc
36	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	38 came	advmod
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 answered	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 answered	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 answered	nsubj
42	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 answered	aux
43	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 came	parataxis
44	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	43 answered	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	the last three nights			the King's garden			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location
2	sing speech: express	participle	the last three nights not said here	a song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	come	present · perfect	the youngest princess		me		night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask	past	the youngest princess not said here		me				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	is a	present	I						tree rules
6	come	past	I					whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	answer speech: assert	present · perfect	I	nothing					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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