Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 72
So all the kings and kings' sons who wanted to marry the Princess Labam had to fight with these demons; "for," said the king to himself, "perhaps the demons may be killed, and then I shall be rid of them."
Who acts: sons, Princess Labam · What happens: want, marry, have, fight, say, kill · To what, where: king, demons · 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 (sons, Princess Labam), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 27 said | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 kings | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kings | det |
| 4 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kings | cc |
| 6 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kings | conj |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 kings | case |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 said | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sons | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 marry | mark |
| 12 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Labam | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Labam | compound |
| 15 | Labam | Labam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 marry | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fight | mark |
| 18 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 demons | case |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 demons | det |
| 21 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fight | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wanted | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 himself | case |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 said | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 killed | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 killed | punct |
| 34 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 39 killed | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 demons | det |
| 36 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 killed | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 killed | aux:pass |
| 39 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 said | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 rid | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 rid | cc |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 rid | advmod |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 rid | nsubj |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 rid | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 rid | cop |
| 46 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 said | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 them | case |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 rid | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | all kings and kings's sons | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | all kings and kings's sons not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the Princess Labam | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | the Princess Labam not said here | with this demons | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with demon=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | all kings and kings's sons | the king | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Topic to himself=Recipient | |||
| 6 | kill in a quote | may · passive | the demons | perhaps property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | shall | all kings and kings's sons = son | then | of demons = demon; rid property | 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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