Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 43

In the morning the Raja's son told the old woman that he intended to marry the princess. "

Who acts: son · What happens: tell, intend, marry · To what, where: old woman, princess · 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), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Raja	det
5	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Raja	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 intended	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 intended	nsubj
14	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 marry	mark
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 intended	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marry	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Raja's son		the old woman	morning	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient
2	intend	past	son				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	son not said here	the princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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