Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 71

Now Laili's father and mother had wept so much for their daughter that they had become quite blind, and her father kept always repeating, "Laili, Laili, Laili."

Who acts: father, feasts · What happens: weep, become, keep, repeat · To what, where: daughter, Laili

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 (father, feasts), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 wept	advmod
2	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 father	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Laili	case
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wept	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mother	cc
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	conj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wept	aux
8	wept	weep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	8 wept	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 daughter	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wept	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 become	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 become	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
17	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 daughter	acl:relcl
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 blind	advmod
19	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 become	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kept	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kept	cc
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kept	nsubj
24	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wept	conj
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 kept	advmod
26	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 kept	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Laili	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Laili	punct
29	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 repeating	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Laili	punct
31	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Laili	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Laili	punct
33	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Laili	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wept	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past · perfect	Laili's father and mother		now	for feasts's daughter	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	past · perfect	feasts = feast	feasts's daughter not said here		blind property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient daughter=Result
3	keep	past	Laili's father			always property	tree rules
4	repeat	gerund	Laili's father not said here	Laili and Laili and Laili			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laili=Eventuality

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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