Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 101
I am a prince who has come to see your country and to speak with you.
Who acts: I, prince · What happens: be, come, see, speak · To what, where: prince, country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prince), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 prince | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 prince | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 prince | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | xcomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 country | nmod:poss |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 speak | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 speak | mark |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 speak | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prince | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | a prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | a prince not said here | your country | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | a prince not said here | with you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-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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