Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 5

Thus time went on, till Balna's son was fourteen years old.

Who acts: son · What happens: go on, be

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 (son), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl:unmarked
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 old	punct
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 old	mark
7	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 son	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Balna	case
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 old	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 old	cop
11	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 old	obl:unmarked
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past					time	thus property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Balna's son				year	old property	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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