Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 112
"Shall we accept this good man's invitation, brother?" asked the prince.
Who acts: we, prince, good man · What happens: accept, ask, invite · To what, where: invitation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, prince, good man), 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 | _ | 4 accept | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 accept | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 accept | nsubj |
| 4 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 man | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invitation | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accept | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invitation | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 accept | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 accept | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept in a quote | shall | we | this good man's invitation and brother | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | invite in a quote | this good man | nom invitation «communication 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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