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

They gave up all hopes of ever seeing their kind husbands, and their sister, and her husband, again, and devoted themselves thenceforward to teaching and taking care of their little nephew.

Who acts: women, hopes · What happens: give up, see, devote, take · To what, where: hopes, husband, kind husbands, women, care

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 (women, hopes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hopes	det
5	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 seeing	mark
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 seeing	advmod
8	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hopes	acl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husbands	nmod:poss
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 husbands	amod
11	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seeing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sister	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sister	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 husband	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 husband	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 again	punct
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 husband	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 devoted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 devoted	cc
24	devoted	devote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 devoted	obj
26	thenceforward	thenceforward	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 devoted	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 teaching	case
28	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 devoted	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 taking	cc
30	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 teaching	conj
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taking	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 nephew	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 nephew	nmod:poss
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 nephew	amod
35	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taking	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	women = woman	all hopes	dog's husband		women's sister obl	tree rules
2	see	gerund	all hopes not said here	women's kind husbands		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus
3	devote	past	women = woman not said here	women = woman			to teaching	tree rules
4	take	gerund	women = woman not said here	care			of women's little nephew	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of nephew=Initial_Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/4/