Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 97
The young prince then wrote him a letter, in which he said, "You are a great King.
Who acts: young prince, prince, You · What happens: write, say, be · To what, where: letter, King, great King · 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 (young prince, prince, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 wrote | advmod |
| 5 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrote | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 letter | det |
| 8 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 said | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrote | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 King | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 King | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 King | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 King | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 King | amod |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the young prince | a letter | King | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient letter=Topic | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in which=Manner | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | You | a great King | 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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