Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 115

Her father consented to this, and he wrote and invited all the Kings and Rajas in the land, saying, "My youngest daughter wishes to be married, but she insists on choosing her husband herself.

Who acts: father, princess, My · What happens: consent, write, invite, say, marry, insist · To what, where: Kings, land, youngest daughter wishes, 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 (father, princess, My), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consented	nsubj
3	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 consented	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wrote	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wrote	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wrote	nsubj
9	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consented	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 invited	cc
11	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrote	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 Kings	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Kings	det
14	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 invited	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Rajas	cc
16	Rajas	raja	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 Kings	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 land	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 land	det
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 invited	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 invited	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 married	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 married	punct
24	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wishes	nmod:poss
25	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 wishes	amod
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wishes	compound
27	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 married	nsubj:pass
28	to	to	PART	_	30 married	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 married	aux:pass
30	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 saying	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 insists	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 insists	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 insists	nsubj
34	insists	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 consented	conj
35	on	on	SCONJ	_	36 choosing	mark
36	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 insists	advcl
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 husband	nmod:poss
38	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 choosing	obj
39	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 husband	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	past	princess's father				to this	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme
2	write	past	father					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	invite	past	father not said here		all Kings and Rajas	the land		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	gerund	father not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry in a quote	to-infinitive · passive		My youngest daughter wishes				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	insist speech: other in a quote	present	princess					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	choose in a quote	gerund	princess not said here	princess's husband				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
8	wish in a quote		My					nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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