Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 67
Now you are beautiful and look like a prince; I never saw such a handsome man as you are before; and yet I know you must be my husband."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, look, not see, know · To what, where: handsome man, 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 (you, I), 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 | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 look | cc |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 prince | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 saw | advmod |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 man | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 before | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 before | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 before | cop |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 saw | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 know | cc |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 26 know | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | parataxis |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 husband | nsubj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 husband | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 husband | cop |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 husband | nmod:poss |
| 31 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 know | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | now | beautiful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | infinitive | you not said here | like a prince | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not see | past | I | such handsome man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | you | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | present | I | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is a | must | you | my husband | 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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