Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 36
"Well," said the princess, "as you are the son of such a great Raja, I will not have you killed, and I will tell my father and mother that I wish to marry you."
Who acts: princess, you · What happens: say, be, not have, kill, tell, wish · To what, where: you, father · 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 (princess, you), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 son | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 son | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 princess | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Raja | case |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 Raja | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Raja | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Raja | amod |
| 19 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 have | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 have | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 tell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tell | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 tell | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 tell | aux |
| 31 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tell | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 mother | cc |
| 35 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 father | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 wish | mark |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 wish | nsubj |
| 38 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 tell | advcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 marry | mark |
| 40 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 wish | xcomp |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 marry | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 tell | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | as the son; of such great Raja | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not have in a quote | future | the princess = princess | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | participle | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the princess = princess | my father and mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | wish in a quote | present | the princess = princess | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the princess = princess not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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