Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 62

Then you told your father you wished to marry, but must choose your own husband; and when all the Kings and Rajas were seated in your father's garden, you sat on an elephant and went round and looked at them all; and then twice hung your gold necklace round my neck, and chose me.

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, wish, marry, choose, seat, sit · To what, where: father, own husband, Kings, garden, gold necklace, me · 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 (you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wished	nsubj
7	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 marry	mark
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wished	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 choose	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 choose	cc
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 choose	aux
13	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 marry	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 husband	amod
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 choose	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 seated	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seated	cc
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 seated	mark
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 Kings	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Kings	det
22	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seated	nsubj:pass
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Rajas	cc
24	Rajas	raja	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Kings	conj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seated	aux:pass
26	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 garden	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 garden	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 father	case
31	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seated	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sat	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 sat	nsubj
34	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 elephant	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 elephant	det
37	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sat	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sat	conj
40	round	round	ADV	_	39 went	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 looked	cc
42	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 went	conj
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 looked	obl
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 them	nmod:unmarked
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 hung	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 hung	cc
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 hung	advmod
49	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	50 hung	advmod
50	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
51	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 necklace	nmod:poss
52	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 necklace	amod
53	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hung	obj
54	round	round	ADP	_	56 neck	case
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 neck	nmod:poss
56	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hung	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 chose	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 chose	cc
59	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 hung	conj
60	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 chose	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	you		your father		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wish	past	you						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	choose	must	you not said here	your own husband					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
5	seat	past · passive		all Kings and Rajas		your father's garden			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in garden=Location
6	sit	past	you					on a elephant	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on elephant=Location
7	go round	past	you not said here					round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	look	past	you not said here					at husbands = husband	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
9	hang	past		your gold necklace			then	round my neck; twice property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Patient
10	choose	past		me					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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.

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