Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 123

After a few days the prince's son said to his wife, "Let us go to my father's country."

Who acts: son, us · What happens: say, let, go · To what, where: wife, us, country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, us), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 prince	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 wife	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
15	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Let	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Let	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	22 country	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 country	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 father	case
22	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the prince's son		son's wife		day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			my father'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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