Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 1

When he is old enough to be danced on his father's knee, I shall sit with a book at the back of the stable, and while I am reading, the boy will see me, jump from his mother's lap, and run towards me to be danced on my knee.

Who acts: he, I, boy · What happens: be, dance, sit, read, see, jump · To what, where: knee, me, lap

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, I, boy), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 old	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sit	advcl
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 danced	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 danced	aux:pass
8	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 old	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 knee	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knee	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 father	case
13	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 danced	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 sit	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sit	aux
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 book	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 book	det
20	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sit	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 back	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 back	det
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 book	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 stable	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stable	det
26	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 back	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 see	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 see	cc
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 reading	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 reading	nsubj
31	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 reading	aux
32	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 see	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 reading	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boy	det
35	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 see	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 see	aux
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sit	advcl
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 see	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 jump	punct
40	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 see	conj
41	from	from	ADP	_	45 lap	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 mother	nmod:poss
43	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lap	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 mother	case
45	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 jump	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 run	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 run	cc
48	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sit	conj
49	towards	towards	ADP	_	50 me	case
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 run	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	53 danced	mark
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 danced	aux:pass
53	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 run	advcl
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 knee	case
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 knee	nmod:poss
56	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 danced	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	he			enough, old property	tree rules
2	dance	to-infinitive · passive	he not said here		his father's knee		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: on knee=Location
3	sit	shall	I			with a book at the back of the stable	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	read	present · progressive	I				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	future	the boy	me			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
6	jump	infinitive	the boy not said here		boy's mother's lap		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lap=Trajectory
7	run	infinitive	I not said here			towards me	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards i=Destination
8	dance	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here		my knee		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: on knee=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.

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