Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 124
She had agreed to release them on the promise of her marriage with the prince.
Who acts: woman · What happens: agree, release, promise, marry · To what, where: robbers, promise, marriage
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 (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | aux |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 release | mark |
| 5 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 release | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 promise | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 promise | det |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 release | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 marriage | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 12 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promise | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 prince | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 marriage | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | woman | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | release not said to happen | to-infinitive | woman not said here | robbers = robber | the promise of woman's marriage with the prince | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source | |||
| 3 | promise | woman's marriage with the prince | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | marry | woman | with the prince | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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