Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 5

When Laili woke she told her father of the angel's visit to her as she slept; but her father paid no attention to her story.

Who acts: Laili, father, angel · What happens: wake, tell, sleep, pay, visit · To what, where: father, attention · 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, father, angel), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 woke	advmod
2	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 woke	nsubj
3	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	advcl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 visit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 angel	det
10	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 visit	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 angel	case
12	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 visit	nmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 slept	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 slept	nsubj
17	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 paid	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 paid	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 paid	nsubj
22	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 attention	det
24	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 paid	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 story	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 story	nmod:poss
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 paid	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wake	past	Laili				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Laili		Laili's father of the angel's visit to angel		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	sleep	past	Laili				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pay	past	Laili's father	no attention		to Laili's story	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
5	visit		the angel			to angel	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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