Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 6

Then, one day, his aunts told him the history of the family; and no sooner did he hear it, than he was seized with a great desire to go in search of his father and mother and uncles, and if he could find them alive to bring them home again.

Who acts: aunts, Balna · What happens: tell, hear, seize, go, find, bring · To what, where: history, Balna, search, aunts, father · 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 (aunts, Balna), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 told	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 aunts	nmod:poss
7	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 history	det
11	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 family	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 family	det
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 history	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 hear	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hear	cc
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 sooner	advmod
18	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 hear	advmod
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hear	aux
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	nsubj
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hear	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seized	punct
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 seized	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seized	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seized	aux:pass
27	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 hear	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 desire	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 desire	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 desire	amod
31	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seized	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seized	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 search	case
35	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 go	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 father	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 father	nmod:poss
38	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 search	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 mother	cc
40	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 father	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 uncles	cc
42	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 father	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 find	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 find	cc
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 find	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 find	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 find	aux
48	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hear	conj
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 find	obj
50	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 find	xcomp
51	to	to	PART	_	52 bring	mark
52	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 alive	advcl
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 bring	obj
54	home	home	ADV	_	52 bring	advmod
55	again	again	ADV	_	52 bring	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Balna's aunts	the history of the family	Balna		then; day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient history=Topic
2	hear	past · do-support	Balna	history				soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	seize	past · passive		Balna				with a great desire	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	go	to-infinitive				search of Balna's father and mother and uncles			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
5	find a condition, not said to happen	could	Balna	aunts = aunt				alive property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
6	bring	to-infinitive	Balna not said here	aunts = aunt			again	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	search			Balna's father and mother and uncles					nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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