Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 47
If he can, then he shall marry the princess; if he cannot, the king will have him killed.
Who acts: son, king · What happens: marry, not have, kill · To what, where: princess, king
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, king), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 can | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 marry | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 marry | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 marry | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 marry | aux |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 have | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 not | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 marry | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 have | obj |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 have | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | shall | son | the princess | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | |||
| 2 | not have a condition, not said to happen | can · future | son | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | participle | king not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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