Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 57

The snake took her on his back and carried her into the country, and there he put her down, and she wandered on and on till she got to Majnun's court-house, where King Majnun was sitting.

Who acts: snake, medicine, Laili, King · What happens: take, carry, put down, wander, get, sit · To what, where: Laili, back, country

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 (snake, medicine, Laili, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 carried	cc
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 country	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 put	expl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 put	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wandered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wandered	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wandered	nsubj
24	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
25	on	on	ADV	_	24 wandered	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 on	cc
27	on	on	ADV	_	25 on	conj
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 got	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	nsubj
30	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wandered	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	36 house	case
32	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 house	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Majnun	case
34	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 house	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 court	punct
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 got	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sitting	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 sitting	advmod
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 sitting	nsubj
40	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 King	flat
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 sitting	aux
42	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 house	acl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the snake	Laili		medicine's back		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on back=Destination
2	carry	past	the snake not said here	Laili		the country		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	put down	past	medicine		Laili	there		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal
4	wander	past	Laili					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	past	Laili				to Majnun's court house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
6	sit	past · progressive	King					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/57/