Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 139

Now the princess's six sisters had all married rich princes, and they laughed at her for choosing such a poor ugly husband as hers seemed to be, and said to each other, mockingly, "See! our sister has married this poor, common man!"

Who acts: sisters, princess · What happens: marry, laugh, choose, seem, be, say · To what, where: six sisters, poor ugly husband, each, sister · 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 (sisters, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 married	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sisters	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 princess	case
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sisters	nummod
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 married	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 married	aux
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 married	advmod
9	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 princes	amod
11	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 married	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughed	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 married	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	obl
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 choosing	mark
19	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 laughed	advcl
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 husband	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 husband	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 husband	amod
23	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 husband	amod
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 choosing	obj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 seemed	mark
26	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 choosing	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 be	mark
29	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laughed	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 each	case
34	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	32 said	obl
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 each	fixed
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 See	punct
37	mockingly	mockingly	ADV	_	40 See	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 mockingly	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 See	punct
40	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 said	conj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 See	punct
42	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 sister	nmod:poss
43	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 married	nsubj:pass
44	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 married	aux
45	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 See	ccomp
46	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 man	det
47	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 man	amod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 poor	punct
49	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 man	amod
50	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 married	obj
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 married	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · perfect · passive		the princess's six sisters		now	all property	tree rules
2	laugh	past	sisters = sister				at princess	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	choose	gerund	sisters = sister not said here	such poor ugly husband				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
4	seem	past	princess					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	be	to-infinitive	princess not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: express	past			each			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
7	see in a quote	infinitive					mockingly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	marry in a quote	present · perfect · passive		our sister				tree rules

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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