Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 7
Listen," he said; "I have married the youngest princess; and when we were married everybody laughed at her for choosing me, and said, 'What a very poor, common man our princess has chosen for her husband!'
Who acts: you, prince, everybody · What happens: listen, say, marry, laugh, choose · To what, where: I, we, me, poor common man · 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, prince, everybody), 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 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Listen | parataxis |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 married | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | aux |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 12 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 princess | amod |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 married | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 married | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 married | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 married | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 married | aux:pass |
| 19 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 laughed | advcl |
| 20 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 laughed | nsubj |
| 21 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 laughed | obl |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 choosing | mark |
| 25 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 laughed | advcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 choosing | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 What | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 What | punct |
| 32 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 said | obj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 poor | advmod |
| 35 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 man | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 poor | punct |
| 37 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 man | amod |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 princess | nmod:poss |
| 40 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 man | nmod |
| 41 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 chosen | aux |
| 42 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 What | acl:relcl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 husband | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 husband | nmod:poss |
| 45 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 chosen | obl |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | marry | present · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | marry | past · passive | we | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | laugh | past | everybody | at princess | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | choose | gerund | everybody not said here | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 8 | choose | present · perfect · passive | a poor common man our princess | for princess's husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for husband=Beneficiary |
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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