Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 37
The prince then returned to the old woman's house; and when morning came the princess said to her mother, "The son of a great Raja has come to this country, and I wish to marry him."
Who acts: prince, morning · What happens: return, come, say, wish, marry · To what, where: country, son · 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 (prince, morning), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 came | advmod |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 mother | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 son | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 son | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 son | det |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mother | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Raja | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Raja | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Raja | amod |
| 29 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 come | aux |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 said | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 country | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 country | det |
| 34 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 wish | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 wish | cc |
| 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 | 4 returned | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 marry | mark |
| 40 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 wish | xcomp |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 marry | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the prince | then | to the old woman's house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 2 | come | past | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · perfect | this country | to princess's mother the son of a great Raja | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location to country=Destination | ||||
| 5 | wish in a quote | present | the prince = prince | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the prince = prince not said here | son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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