Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 2

Then they questioned the servants, and when they heard of the Fakir and the little black dog, they guessed what had happened, and sent in every direction seeking them, but neither the Fakir nor the dog were to be found.

Who acts: Princesses, direction · What happens: question, hear, guess, happen, send, seek · To what, where: servants, direction, Princesses, Fakir · 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 (Princesses, direction), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 questioned	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 questioned	nsubj
3	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servants	det
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 questioned	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 guessed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 guessed	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 guessed	advcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Fakir	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fakir	det
13	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dog	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dog	amod
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dog	amod
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Fakir	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 guessed	nsubj
21	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 questioned	conj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 happened	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 happened	aux
24	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 guessed	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sent	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sent	cc
27	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 happened	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 direction	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 direction	det
30	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sent	obl
31	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 direction	acl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seeking	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 found	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 found	cc
35	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 Fakir	cc:preconj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Fakir	det
37	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 found	nsubj:pass
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	40 dog	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dog	det
40	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Fakir	conj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 found	aux:pass
42	to	to	PART	_	44 found	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 found	aux:pass
44	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 questioned	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 questioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	past	Princesses = princess	the servants		then		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient
2	hear	past	Princesses = princess				of the Fakir and the little black dog	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fakir=Stimulus
3	guess	past	Princesses = princess					vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	happen	past · perfect						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	send	participle			every direction			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in direction=Destination
6	seek	gerund	every direction not said here	Princesses = princess				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	find	past · passive		the Fakir nor the dog				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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