Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 94

But Laili had become once more a hideous old woman, with a long, long nose, and teeth like tusks; just such an old woman, excepting her teeth, as she had been when she came out of the Rohu fish; and she lived in the jungle, and neither ate nor drank, and she kept on saying, "Majnun, Majnun; I want Majnun."

Who acts: Laili, old woman · What happens: become, except, be, live, eat, drink · To what, where: hideous old woman, teeth, jungle, 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, old woman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 become	cc
2	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 woman	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
8	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nose	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	17 nose	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 nose	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nose	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nose	amod
17	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woman	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 teeth	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 teeth	cc
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 woman	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 tusks	case
22	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 teeth	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 woman	punct
24	just	just	ADV	_	28 woman	advmod
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 woman	det:predet
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 woman	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 excepting	punct
30	excepting	except	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 woman	acl
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 teeth	nmod:poss
32	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 excepting	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 came	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 came	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 came	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 came	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 came	cop
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 came	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 came	nsubj
40	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 woman	parataxis
41	out	out	ADP	_	45 fish	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 fish	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fish	det
44	Rohu	Rohu	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 fish	compound
45	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 came	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 lived	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 lived	cc
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lived	nsubj
49	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 came	conj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 jungle	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 jungle	det
52	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lived	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 ate	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 ate	cc
55	neither	neither	ADV	_	56 ate	advmod
56	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 lived	conj
57	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	58 drank	cc
58	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 ate	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 kept	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 kept	cc
61	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 kept	nsubj
62	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 ate	conj
63	on	on	SCONJ	_	64 saying	mark
64	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	62 kept	advcl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 Majnun	punct
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 Majnun	punct
67	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 saying	obj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 Majnun	punct
69	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 Majnun	conj
70	;	;	PUNCT	_	72 want	punct
71	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	72 want	nsubj
72	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 lived	conj
73	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	72 want	obj
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 woman	punct
75	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	Laili	a hideous old woman and a long long nose and teeth like tusks			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	except	gerund	such old woman not said here	Laili's teeth			tree rules
3	is	past · perfect	Laili			out the Rohu fish; come property	tree rules
4	live	past	Laili		the jungle		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location
5	eat	past	Laili not said here			neither property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	past	Laili not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	keep	past	Laili				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	gerund	Laili not said here	Majnun and Majnun			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent majnun=Topic
9	want in a quote	present	Laili	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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