Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 115
Then he said, "Bed, I wish to go to the Princess Labam's country."
Who acts: son · What happens: say, wish, go · To what, where: Bed, country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bed | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bed | punct |
| 6 | Bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Labam | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Labam | compound |
| 15 | Labam | Labam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 country | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Labam | case |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | son | Bed | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | son | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | son not said here | the Princess Labam's country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location |
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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