Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 48
I am come," he said, throwing his arms round the prince's neck, "because I cannot let you go alone.
Who acts: I, son, you · What happens: come, say, throw, not let, go · To what, where: arms, you · 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 (I, son, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 throwing | punct |
| 9 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 said | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arms | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 throwing | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 neck | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 prince | case |
| 16 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throwing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 throwing | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 let | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 let | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 let | advmod |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | throw in a quote | gerund | son's arms | round the prince's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not let | can | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | you not said here | alone property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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