Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 1

Soon after this, the six elder Princesses heard the little baby, their nephew, begin to cry, and when they went upstairs they were much surprised to find him all alone, and Balna nowhere to be seen.

Who acts: six elder Princesses, Princesses · What happens: hear, begin, cry, go, be, find · To what, where: little baby, him, Balna · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six elder Princesses, Princesses), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 heard	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Soon	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Soon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princesses	det
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Princesses	nummod
7	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Princesses	compound
8	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 baby	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 baby	amod
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nephew	punct
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nephew	nmod:poss
15	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 baby	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begin	punct
17	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heard	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cry	mark
19	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begin	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 went	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
25	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 surprised	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 surprised	cop
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 surprised	advmod
29	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 went	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 find	mark
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 surprised	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 find	obj
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 alone	advmod
34	alone	alone	ADV	_	31 find	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seen	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 seen	cc
37	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 seen	nsubj:pass
38	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 seen	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	41 seen	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 seen	aux:pass
41	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 heard	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the six elder Princesses	the little baby and Princesses's nephew	soon property	tree rules
2	begin	infinitive				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	Princesses = princess		upstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Princesses = princess		surprised property	tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive	Princesses = princess not said here	him = he	alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
7	see	to-infinitive · passive		Balna	nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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