Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 20

So the Malee's wife dressed him up in a saree, and pretended that he was her daughter.

Who acts: wife, Prince · What happens: dress up, pretend, be · To what, where: Prince, saree, daughter

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 (wife, Prince), 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	_	6 dressed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Malee	det
3	Malee	Malee	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Malee	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	nsubj
6	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dressed	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 dressed	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 saree	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 saree	det
11	saree	saree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dressed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pretended	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pretended	cc
14	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dressed	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 daughter	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 daughter	cop
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pretended	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dress up	past	the Malee's wife	Prince	a saree	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	pretend	past	the Malee's wife not said here			tree rules
3	is a	past	Prince	wife's daughter		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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