Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 2
And if the prince desires it, I will arrange for his marriage with Gulizar as soon as possible."
Who acts: prince, I · What happens: desire, arrange, marry · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 arrange | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 desires | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 desires | nsubj |
| 5 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 arrange | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 desires | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 desires | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 arrange | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 arrange | aux |
| 10 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 marriage | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrange | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Gulizar | case |
| 15 | Gulizar | Gulizar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 marriage | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 arrange | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 possible | mark |
| 19 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soon | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrange | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire a condition, not said to happen | present | the prince | palace | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrange | future | I | for prince's marriage with Gulizar; soon property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for marriage=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | marry | prince | with Gulizar | 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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