Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 53

Having eaten her own share, she placed that of the chief's son under his bed, and covering it up to keep off the dust, re-entered the fiddle.

Who acts: girl · What happens: have, eat, place, cover up, keep off, re-enter · To what, where: own share, bed, share, dust, 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 (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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 placed	advcl
2	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 share	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 share	amod
5	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eaten	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 placed	nsubj
8	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 son	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 that	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chief	det
12	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 son	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 chief	case
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	advcl
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 bed	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bed	nmod:poss
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 covering	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 covering	cc
20	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 placed	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 covering	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 covering	compound:prt
23	to	to	PART	_	24 keep	mark
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 covering	advcl
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 keep	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dust	det
27	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keep	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 re-entered	punct
29	re-entered	re-enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fiddle	det
31	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 re-entered	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	gerund	girl not said here			tree rules
2	eat	participle	girl not said here	girl's own share		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient
3	place	past	girl		son's bed	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under bed=Destination
4	cover up	gerund	girl not said here	share		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
5	keep off	to-infinitive	girl not said here	the dust		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Theme
6	re-enter	past	girl not said here	the fiddle		tree rules
7	share		girl			nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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