Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 59
The King's son replied, "When I was little I could fight a bit, and now, if any one wants to fight, I am not so unmanly as to turn my back.
Who acts: son, one · What happens: reply, be, fight, want, not be, turn · To what, where: bit, back · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son, one), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 little | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 little | punct |
| 8 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 little | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 little | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 little | cop |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 replied | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fight | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fight | aux |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 little | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bit | det |
| 16 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fight | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wants | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wants | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 wants | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 now | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 wants | mark |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wants | nsubj |
| 24 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fight | mark |
| 26 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wants | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wants | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 unmanly | nsubj |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 unmanly | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 unmanly | advmod |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 unmanly | advmod |
| 32 | unmanly | unmanly | ADV | _ | 24 wants | parataxis |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 turn | mark |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 turn | mark |
| 35 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 unmanly | advcl |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 back | nmod:poss |
| 37 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 turn | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the King's son | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the King's son = son | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight in a quote | could | the King's son = son | a bit | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | any one | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fight not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | any one not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is in a quote | present | the King's son = son | unmanly property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | turn in a quote | to-infinitive | the King's son = son not said here | my back | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
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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