Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 5
"No," said the young prince, "I will not ride, I will walk."
Who acts: young prince · What happens: say, not ride, walk · 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 (young 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 prince | amod |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ride | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ride | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ride | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 ride | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 ride | advmod |
| 14 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walk | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 walk | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 walk | aux |
| 18 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ride | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ride | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the young prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not ride in a quote | future | the young prince = prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk in a quote | future | the young prince = prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/5/