Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 27

At last one day, however, opportunity favoured him, and when no one was looking, the boy tied the ring to a nosegay, and threw it at Balna's feet.

Who acts: opportunity, one, boy · What happens: favour, look, tie, throw · To what, where: Prince, ring, feet

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 (opportunity, one, boy), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	compound
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 favoured	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	9 favoured	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 favoured	nsubj
9	favoured	favour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 favoured	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tied	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tied	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 looking	mark
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looking	aux
17	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 tied	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tied	nsubj
21	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 favoured	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ring	det
23	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tied	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 nosegay	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 nosegay	det
26	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tied	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 threw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 threw	cc
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 favoured	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 threw	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	34 feet	case
32	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 feet	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Balna	case
34	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 threw	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 favoured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	favour	past	opportunity	Prince		day	however property	tree rules
2	look	past · progressive	no one					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	tie	past	the boy	the ring			to a nosegay	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ring=Patient to nosegay=Co-Patient
4	throw	past	opportunity not said here	ring	Balna's feet			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Destination

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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