Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 115

They had the garden searched for the terrible old woman, but found nothing, and King Dantal told his son he was very silly to be so much frightened.

Who acts: men, garden, King · What happens: have, search, find, tell, be, frighten · To what, where: nothing, son · 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 (men, garden, King), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 garden	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 searched	nsubj
5	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 searched	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 found	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 told	nsubj
18	Dantal	Dantal	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 King	flat
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	iobj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 silly	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 silly	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 silly	advmod
25	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 told	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	30 frightened	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 frightened	aux:pass
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	30 frightened	advmod
30	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 silly	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	men = man				tree rules
2	search	past	the garden			for the terrible old woman	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for woman=Theme
3	find	past		nothing			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past	King		king's son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
5	is	past	king			silly property	tree rules
6	frighten	to-infinitive · passive	king not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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