Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 89
The prince always did what his horse told him to do; so he went to his wife and said to her, "I wish very much to go to my own country to see my father and mother." "
Who acts: prince, horse · What happens: do, tell, go, say, wish, see · To what, where: prince, wife, own country, father · 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, horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 told | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 wife | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wish | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 wish | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 wish | nsubj |
| 26 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 wish | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 go | mark |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 wish | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 country | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 country | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 country | amod |
| 34 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 go | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | advcl |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 father | nmod:poss |
| 38 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 mother | cc |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 father | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the prince | always property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | prince's horse | prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince's horse not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | prince | to prince's wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | prince not said here | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | wish in a quote | present | prince | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | my own country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | |||||
| 8 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | my father and mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
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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