Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 59

He then continued his journey on foot till he arrived once more at the Magician's palace, where he sat down at the door and began playing with the parrot.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: continue, arrive, sit down, begin, play, journey · To what, where: journey, foot, palace, door

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 continued	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 continued	advmod
3	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 journey	nmod:poss
5	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 continued	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 foot	case
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 continued	obl
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 arrived	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 arrived	nsubj
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	advcl
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 palace	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	17 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Magician	det
15	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 palace	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Magician	case
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 sat	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 palace	acl:relcl
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sat	compound:prt
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 door	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arrived	conj
28	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 began	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 parrot	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 parrot	det
31	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 playing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Prince	Prince's journey	foot	then		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
2	arrive	past	Prince	the Magician's palace				tree rules
3	sit down	past	Prince		the door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
4	begin	past	Prince not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	play	gerund	Prince not said here				with the parrot	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with parrot=Co-Agent
6	journey		Prince					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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