Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 54
"Then I must go and look for it," said the prince.
Who acts: prince · What happens: go, look, say · 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 look | cc |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | must | the prince = prince | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | the prince = prince not said here | for country | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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