Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 39
"Good," said the king; "but if this Raja's son wishes to marry my daughter, he must first do whatever I bid him.
Who acts: king, son · What happens: say, wish, marry, do, bid · To what, where: daughter, whatever · 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 (king, son), 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 | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | 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 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 but | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 do | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 wishes | mark |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Raja | det |
| 13 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Raja | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wishes | nsubj |
| 16 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 marry | mark |
| 18 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wishes | xcomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 marry | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wishes | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 do | advmod |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 26 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 bid | obj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 bid | nsubj |
| 28 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | advcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bid | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this Raja's son | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | this Raja's son not said here | my daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | must | son | first property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | bid in a quote | past | the king = king | whatever | 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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