Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 54
"Because I love you," he said, "and shall never be happy without you."
Who acts: Prince · What happens: love, say, not be · To what, where: 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 (Prince), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 love | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 love | nsubj |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 love | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happy | cc |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 happy | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 happy | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 happy | cop |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 happy | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | present | Prince | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | shall | Prince not said here | without you; happy property | tree rules |
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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