Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 3

The Raja of the Phalana country was called Munsuk Raja, and he had a daughter named Laili, who was very beautiful; she had brown eyes and black hair.

Who acts: Raja, Laili · What happens: call, have, name, be · To what, where: Raja, daughter, brown eyes · 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 (Raja, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Raja	det
2	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 country	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 country	det
5	Phalana	Phalana	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 country	compound
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Raja	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	aux:pass
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	Munsuk	Munsuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Raja	compound
10	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 daughter	det
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 daughter	acl
18	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 named	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beautiful	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 beautiful	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 beautiful	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 beautiful	advmod
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Laili	amod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	parataxis
27	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eyes	amod
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hair	cc
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hair	amod
31	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eyes	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past · passive		the Raja of the Phalana country		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	have	past	Raja	a daughter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	name	participle		a daughter not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Laili		beautiful property	tree rules
5	have	past	Laili	brown eyes and black hair		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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