Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 30

She told him that for twelve long years the Magician had kept her shut up in the tower because she refused to marry him, and she was so closely guarded that she saw no hope of release.

Who acts: daughter, Magician, release · What happens: tell, keep, shut up, refuse, not marry, guard · To what, where: son, shut tower, daughter, hope · 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 (daughter, Magician, release), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 kept	mark
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kept	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Magician	det
10	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kept	aux
12	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tower	nmod:poss
14	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tower	amod
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 shut	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 tower	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tower	det
18	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	obj
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 refused	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 refused	nsubj
21	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kept	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 marry	mark
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 refused	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 marry	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 guarded	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 guarded	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 guarded	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 guarded	aux:pass
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 guarded	advmod
30	closely	closely	ADV	_	31 guarded	advmod
31	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 saw	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 saw	nsubj
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 guarded	advcl
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 hope	det
36	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 saw	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 release	case
38	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hope	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	daughter		son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep	past · perfect	the Magician	daughter's shut tower		year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Theme
3	shut up	participle						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	refuse	past	daughter					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not marry	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	son				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	guard	past · passive		daughter			closely property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
7	see	past	daughter	no hope of release				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hope=Stimulus
8	hope		release					nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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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