Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 52

When all the household were absent at their labours in the fields, the Bonga girl used to come out of the bamboo fiddle, and prepared the family meal.

Who acts: household, Bonga girl · What happens: be, use, come out, prepare · To what, where: labours, bamboo fiddle, family meal

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 (household, Bonga girl), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	6 absent	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 household	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 household	det
4	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 absent	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 absent	cop
6	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 labours	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 labours	nmod:poss
9	labours	labour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 absent	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 fields	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fields	det
12	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 labours	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
15	Bonga	Bonga	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 girl	compound
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 used	nsubj
17	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 absent	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 used	xcomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	24 fiddle	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 fiddle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fiddle	det
23	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fiddle	compound
24	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 prepared	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 prepared	cc
27	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 used	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 meal	det
29	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meal	compound
30	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 prepared	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 absent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all household		brothers's labours in the fields	absent property	tree rules
2	use	past	the Bonga girl				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	come out	to-infinitive	the Bonga girl not said here	the bamboo fiddle			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient fiddle=Result
4	prepare	past		the family meal			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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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