Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 106

While Majnun was busy eating a fruit in this way, and was talking to Husain Mahamat, he turned towards him and saw Laili walking behind the Wazir's son. "

Who acts: Majnun, Laili · What happens: be, eat, talk, turn, see, walk · To what, where: fruit, way, Husain, Laili

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, Laili), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 busy	mark
2	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 busy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 turned	advcl
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 busy	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fruit	det
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talking	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 talking	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 talking	aux
14	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 busy	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Husain	case
16	Husain	Husain	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 talking	obl
17	Mahamat	Mahamat	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Husain	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 busy	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turned	nsubj
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	towards	towards	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turned	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	conj
25	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obj
26	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 saw	xcomp
27	behind	behind	ADP	_	31 son	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Wazir	det
29	Wazir	Wazir	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 son	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Wazir	case
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 walking	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Majnun				busy property	tree rules
2	eat	gerund	Majnun not said here	a fruit		this way		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
3	talk	past · progressive	Majnun not said here		Husain			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to husain=Co-Agent
4	turn	past	Majnun				towards Husain	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards he=Trajectory
5	see	past	Majnun not said here	Laili				tree rules
6	walk	gerund	Laili not said here				behind the Wazir's son	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind son=Trajectory

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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