Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 49

Laili sat quite still on her horse, and as the Raja came towards her she said, "Why did you kill my husband?"

Who acts: Laili, Raja, you · What happens: sit, come, say, kill · To what, where: husband · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Laili, Raja, you), 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	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 horse	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Raja	det
12	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
14	towards	towards	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kill	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 kill	punct
20	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 kill	advmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kill	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 kill	nsubj
23	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 husband	nmod:poss
25	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kill	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 kill	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Laili		still	on Laili's horse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location
2	come	past	the Raja			towards Laili	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards she=Initial_Location
3	say speech: ask	past	Laili				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	kill in a quote	past · do-support	you	my husband			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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