Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 7
"I am ill to-day, dear aunty," said the prince; "do let me stay till to-morrow morning."
Who acts: dear aunty · What happens: be, say, let, stay · To what, where: prince, dear aunty · 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 (dear aunty), 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 | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ill | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ill | cop |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 aunty | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ill | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 aunty | punct |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 aunty | amod |
| 10 | aunty | aunty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 aunty | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 aunty | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | aux |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | till | till | ADP | _ | 26 morning | case |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 morning | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 morning | compound |
| 26 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | dear aunty = aunty | day | ill property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | dear aunty | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive · do-support | dear aunty = aunty | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | infinitive | dear aunty = aunty not said here | morning | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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