Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 8
"That we will never do," said the prince, "unless you will kill your four wicked Queens with your own hand.
Who acts: That, prince, you · What happens: not do, say, kill · To what, where: four wicked Queens · 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 (That, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kill | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 kill | punct |
| 14 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 17 kill | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 kill | aux |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Queens | nmod:poss |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Queens | nummod |
| 20 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Queens | amod |
| 21 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kill | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hand | amod |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kill | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | future | That | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | your four wicked Queens | with your own hand | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent queen=Patient with hand=Instrument |
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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