Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 69

So she said to her father, "My father; I wish to marry."

Who acts: daughter · What happens: say, wish, marry · To what, where: father · 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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 father	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 father	punct
9	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wish	nsubj
13	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 marry	mark
15	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wish	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	daughter	daughter's father and My father	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wish in a quote	present	daughter		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	daughter not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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