Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 114

Then she went to her father, and said to him, "Father, I wish to be married; but I must choose my husband myself."

Who acts: princess · What happens: go, say, wish, marry, choose · To what, where: boy, husband · 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 (princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Father	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Father	punct
14	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wish	nsubj
17	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Father	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 married	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 married	aux:pass
20	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wish	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 choose	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 choose	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 choose	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 choose	aux
25	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 husband	nmod:poss
27	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 choose	obj
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 husband	nmod:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	princess			then	to princess's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	princess not said here		boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	wish in a quote	present	princess					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
5	choose in a quote	must	princess	my husband myself				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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