Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 23

She would not listen to a word her father, or her mother, or her servants said to her, but went off into the jungle, and wandered from jungle to jungle, till she got farther and farther away from her own country.

Who acts: Laili, servants · What happens: not listen, say, go off, wander, get · To what, where: mother, Laili, jungle · 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 (Laili, servants), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 listen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 listen	advmod
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 word	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 mother	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 servants	nmod:poss
17	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 went	compound:prt
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 jungle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 jungle	det
27	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wandered	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wandered	cc
30	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 jungle	case
32	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wandered	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 jungle	case
34	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wandered	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 got	punct
36	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 got	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 got	nsubj
38	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wandered	conj
39	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 away	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 farther	cc
41	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 farther	conj
42	away	away	ADV	_	38 got	advmod
43	from	from	ADP	_	46 country	case
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 country	nmod:poss
45	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 country	amod
46	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 away	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not listen	would	Laili	Laili's mother			to a word	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Laili's servants		Laili			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	go off	past	Laili's servants not said here			the jungle		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
4	wander	past	Laili's servants not said here			jungle	to jungle	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to jungle=Destination
5	get	past	Laili				away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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