Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 141

They used to take their little knives there and cut the fruits and eat them.

Who acts: fruits · What happens: use, take, cut, eat · To what, where: little knives, fruits

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 (fruits), 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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knives	nmod:poss
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knives	amod
7	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 take	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cut	cc
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fruits	det
12	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eat	cc
14	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use	past	fruits = fruit			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	take	to-infinitive	fruits = fruit not said here	fruits's little knives	there	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
3	cut	past	fruits = fruit not said here	the fruits		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fruit=Product
4	eat	present	fruits = fruit not said here	fruits = fruit		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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