Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 54
"A thousand thanks to Heaven for bringing me to you," said the prince.
Who acts: thousand thanks, prince · What happens: bring, say · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand thanks, 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 | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thanks | det |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thanks | nummod |
| 4 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Heaven | case |
| 6 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thanks | nmod |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 bringing | mark |
| 8 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 thanks | acl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bringing | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bringing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
| 14 | said | say | 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 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | gerund | a thousand thanks to Heaven not said here | the prince = prince | to you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to you=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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