Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 125
"You are my aunty," said the prince; "let me remain with you for this one night.
Who acts: You, aunty · What happens: be, say, let, remain · To what, where: aunty, prince · 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 (You, aunty), 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 | _ | 5 aunty | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 aunty | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 aunty | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 aunty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | aunty | aunty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 aunty | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 aunty | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 remain | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 night | det |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 night | nummod |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remain | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | my aunty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | my aunty | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | my aunty = aunty | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remain in a quote | infinitive | my aunty = aunty not said here | night | with you | vn exist-47.1 «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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