--- title: As I do not know who it is she wishes to marry, I beg you will all c… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As I do not know who it is she wishes to marry, I beg you will all come on a certain day, for her to see you and make her choice." Who acts: I, you, princess. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/116/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/) / 116 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 116 As I do not know who it is she wishes to marry, I beg you will all come on a certain day, for her to see you and make her choice." **Who acts:** I, you, princess · **What happens:** not know, be, marry, beg, come, see · **To what, where:** you, choice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, princess), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:23:116 # text = As I do not know who it is she wishes to marry, I beg you will all come on a certain day, for her to see you and make her choice." 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 wishes wish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 all all ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | wish *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **come** | future | you | | | | day | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | princess | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 7 | **make** | infinitive | princess *not said here* | princess's choice | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/117/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/)