Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 110

They ran to King Dantal, and Majnun told him there was a Rakshas or a demon in the garden that had come to eat them.

Who acts: age, Majnun, Rakshas, garden · What happens: run, tell, be, come, eat · To what, where: King, age · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (age, Majnun, Rakshas, garden), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 King	case
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
5	Dantal	Dantal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
8	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Rakshas	det
14	Rakshas	Rakshas	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 demon	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 demon	det
17	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Rakshas	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 garden	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 garden	det
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 demon	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 come	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 garden	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	xcomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eat	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	run	past	age		King		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	Majnun		king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be	past	a Rakshas or a demon in the garden			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past · perfect	the garden				tree rules
5	eat	to-infinitive	the garden not said here	age			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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