Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 22

Then Majnun took the fruit and began to cut it open tremblingly, for he shook with fear; and when he had cut it, out stepped Laili, young and far more beautiful than she had ever been.

Who acts: Majnun, Rakshas, Laili · What happens: take, begin, cut, shake, step, be · To what, where: fruit, Laili

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majnun, Rakshas, Laili), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fruit	det
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cut	mark
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	obj
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cut	xcomp
12	tremblingly	tremblingly	ADV	_	9 cut	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shook	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 shook	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shook	nsubj
16	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 fear	case
18	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shook	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 cut	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cut	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 cut	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cut	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cut	aux
24	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 took	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cut	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stepped	punct
27	out	out	ADV	_	28 stepped	advmod
28	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
29	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 stepped	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 young	punct
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stepped	advcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 beautiful	cc
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 more	advmod
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 beautiful	advmod
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 young	conj
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	40 been	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 been	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 been	aux
39	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 been	advmod
40	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 beautiful	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Majnun	the fruit	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
2	begin	past	Majnun not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cut	to-infinitive	Majnun not said here	fruit		open, tremblingly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	shake	past	Rakshas			with fear	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with fear=Co-Patient
5	cut	past · perfect	Rakshas	fruit			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
6	step	past	Majnun not said here	Laili		out property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location laili=Theme
7	be	past · perfect	Laili		ever		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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