Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 42
I am the husband of your youngest princess," he answered.
Who acts: I, prince · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: husband · 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 husband | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 husband | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 husband | det |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 princess | nmod:poss |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 princess | amod |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 husband | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 husband | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 husband | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the husband | of your youngest princess | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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