Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 137

Her father then stood up, and said to them all, "I promised my daughter she should marry any one she pleased, and as she has twice chosen that poor, common man, she shall marry him."

Who acts: father, princess · What happens: stand up, say, promise, marry, choose · To what, where: daughter, one, father · 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), 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	4 stood	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stood	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	ccomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 promised	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 promised	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 promised	nsubj
15	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 promised	iobj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 marry	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 marry	aux
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promised	ccomp
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marry	obj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pleased	nsubj
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chosen	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 chosen	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 chosen	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 chosen	nsubj
29	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 chosen	aux
30	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 chosen	advmod
31	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stood	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 man	mark
33	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 poor	punct
35	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chosen	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 marry	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 marry	nsubj
39	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 marry	aux
40	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 marry	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	princess's father			then		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	princess's father not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	princess's father = father		my daughter			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
4	marry in a quote	should	princess	any one				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	choose in a quote	present · perfect	princess				twice property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	marry in a quote	shall	princess	father				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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