Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 68

Then sitting down near them, she began in wailing tones to upbraid them on account of the treatment she had been subjected to by their wives.

Who acts: girl, treatment · What happens: sit down, begin, wail, upbraid, subject, account · To what, where: tones, brothers, account, girl, treatment

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, treatment), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sitting	advmod
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 began	advcl
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 sitting	advmod
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sitting	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sitting	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 wailing	mark
10	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 began	advcl
11	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wailing	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 upbraid	mark
13	upbraid	upbraid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wailing	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 upbraid	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 account	case
16	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 upbraid	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 treatment	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 treatment	det
19	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 account	nmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 subjected	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 subjected	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 subjected	aux:pass
23	subjected	subject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 treatment	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	27 wives	mark
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 wives	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wives	nmod:poss
27	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 subjected	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	gerund	girl not said here			then	near brothers = brother; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near they=Location
2	begin	past	girl					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	wail	gerund	girl not said here	tones				tree rules
4	upbraid	to-infinitive	girl not said here	brothers = brother	account of the treatment			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	subject	past · perfect · passive	the treatment not said here	girl				tree rules
6	account			the treatment				nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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