Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 54

Whoever wishes to marry my daughter," he said to the prince, "must first do all I tell him.

Who acts: Whoever, king, I · What happens: wish, marry, say, do, tell · To what, where: daughter, prince, all, king · 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 (Whoever, king, I), 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	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 wishes	nsubj
2	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 marry	mark
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wishes	xcomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daughter	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 prince	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 do	advmod
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 do	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
21	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 all	acl:relcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wishes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	Whoever				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Whoever not said here	my daughter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	king		the prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient
4	do	must	king not said here	all		first property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	present	I		king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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