Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 4
I only came here to fetch my mother; and now that I have found her, I will take her with me to my father-in-law's palace.
Who acts: I · What happens: come, fetch, find, take · To what, where: mother, her, palace
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fetch | mark |
| 6 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fetch | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 found | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 found | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 palace | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 palace | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 palace | nsubj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 palace | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 palace | case |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 in | punct |
| 30 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 palace | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 law | case |
| 32 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | I not said here | my mother | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | present · perfect | I | her = she | now | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 4 | take | future | I | her = she | my palace | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=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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