Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 86
When you are married," he said to him, "I will take you back to your father's country."
Who acts: prince, I · What happens: marry, say, take · To what, where: you, jungle · 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 (prince, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 married | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 country | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 father | case |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 back | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present · passive | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | prince | jungle | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | future | I | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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