Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 68
Now the King's daughter, who was sitting on the roof of the palace, saw his royal marks, and she said, "This man is a king; when I marry, I will marry him and no other."
Who acts: daughter, man, King · What happens: sit, see, say, be, marry, mark · To what, where: roof, royal marks, king, Man · 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 (daughter, man, King), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sitting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sitting | aux |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 daughter | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 roof | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roof | det |
| 12 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roof | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 marks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 marks | amod |
| 20 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 saw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 king | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 king | punct |
| 27 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 king | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 king | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | ccomp |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 marry | punct |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 marry | advmod |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 marry | nsubj |
| 35 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 marry | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 marry | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 marry | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 marry | aux |
| 39 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 saw | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 marry | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 other | cc |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 other | det |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 marry | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 marry | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the King's daughter | the roof of the palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the King's daughter | King's royal marks | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this man | a king | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry in a quote | present | daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | marry in a quote | future | daughter | Man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 7 | mark | King | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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