Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 116
As I do not know who it is she wishes to marry, I beg you will all come on a certain day, for her to see you and make her choice."
Who acts: I, you, princess · What happens: not know, be, marry, beg, come, see · To what, where: you, choice · 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 (I, you, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 beg | advcl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wishes | nsubj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wishes | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wishes | cop |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wishes | nsubj |
| 10 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 marry | mark |
| 12 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wishes | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 beg | nsubj |
| 15 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 beg | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 22 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | advcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 see | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 make | cc |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 see | conj |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 choice | nmod:poss |
| 33 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 beg | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | wish property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | present | I | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come | future | you | day | all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | princess | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | make | infinitive | princess not said here | princess's choice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product |
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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