Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 7

Even as she sat and ate her food she kept saying, "Majnun, Majnun; I want Majnun."

Who acts: Laili, food · What happens: sit, eat, keep, say, want · To what, where: food, Majnun · 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, food), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 sat	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ate	cc
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 food	acl:relcl
11	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Majnun	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Majnun	punct
14	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 saying	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Majnun	punct
16	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Majnun	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 want	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 want	nsubj
19	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	advcl
20	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 want	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sit	past	Laili		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	Laili not said here	Laili's food	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	keep	past	Laili	Laili's food not said here	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Laili's food not said here	Majnun and Majnun	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent majnun=Topic
5	want in a quote	present	Laili's food = food	Majnun	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot majnun=Theme

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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