Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 105

As Prince Majnun and the Wazir's son walked in the garden, they gathered the fruit as they had done as little children, only they bit the fruit with their teeth; they did not cut it.

Who acts: Majnun, men · What happens: walk, gather, do, bite, not cut · To what, where: garden, fruit

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majnun, men), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 Majnun	case
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Majnun	nmod:desc
3	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 walked	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 son	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wazir	det
6	Wazir	Wazir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Wazir	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Majnun	conj
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gathered	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gathered	nsubj
15	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 walked	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fruit	det
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gathered	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 done	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 gathered	advcl
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 children	case
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 done	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bit	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 bit	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bit	nsubj
28	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 walked	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fruit	det
30	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bit	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 teeth	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 teeth	nmod:poss
33	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fruit	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 cut	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cut	nsubj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 cut	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 cut	advmod
38	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 walked	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cut	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Majnun Prince and the Wazir's son		the garden		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory
2	gather	past	men = man	the fruit			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
3	do	past · perfect	men = man			as little children	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bite	past	men = man	the fruit		with men's teeth	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient with tooth=Instrument
5	not cut	past · do-support	men = man	fruit			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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