Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 50

At last he told his father and mother that he wanted to go and see the Princess Labam. "

Who acts: prince · What happens: tell, want, go, see · To what, where: father, last, Princess Labam · 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 (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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mother	cc
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 wanted	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Labam	det
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Labam	compound
18	Labam	Labam	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	prince		prince's father and mother	last	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	want	past	prince				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	infinitive	prince not said here	the Princess Labam			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer labam=Stimulus

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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