Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 51
I must go," he said; "I must see what she is like.
Who acts: I, prince, service · What happens: go, say, see, be · 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 (I, prince, service), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 what | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 16 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 13 what | discourse |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | must | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | service | tree rules |
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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