Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 44

It so happened that the Jogi some time after went to the house of a village chief, and after playing a tune or two on his fiddle asked for something to eat.

Who acts: It, time · What happens: happen, go, play, ask, eat · To what, where: Jogi, house, tune, fiddle

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 (It, time), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 Jogi	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Jogi	det
6	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Jogi	appos
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 chief	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chief	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chief	compound
17	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
20	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 playing	mark
21	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 asked	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tune	det
23	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 playing	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 two	cc
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 tune	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 fiddle	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fiddle	nmod:poss
28	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 playing	obl
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 something	case
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 asked	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 eat	mark
33	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 something	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It	the Jogi			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	some time not said here		the house of a village chief		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
3	play	gerund		a tune	Jogi's fiddle		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past				for something	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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