Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 136
The princess does not care to marry one of us, but chooses that very poor man!"
Who acts: princess · What happens: not care, marry, choose · To what, where: one, poor man
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 care | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 care | advmod |
| 5 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 marry | mark |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 care | xcomp |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 marry | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chooses | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 chooses | cc |
| 13 | chooses | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | conj |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 man | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 poor | advmod |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chooses | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | present · do-support | the princess | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | one of us | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 3 | choose | present | the princess not said here | that poor man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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