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

That night as he lay trembling in bed the little old woman lay there in place of the dog, crying "Majnun, Majnun, I want to marry you.

Who acts: man, little old woman · What happens: lie, tremble, cry, want, marry · To what, where: bed, place, Majnun, you · 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 (man, little 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl:unmarked
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 lay	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 lay	csubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trembling	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	advcl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 lay	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 place	case
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 dog	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dog	det
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 place	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 crying	punct
21	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 lay	advcl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Majnun	punct
23	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 crying	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Majnun	punct
25	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Majnun	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 want	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 want	nsubj
28	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 marry	mark
30	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 want	xcomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 marry	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie	past	man			night	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tremble	gerund			bed		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location
3	lie	past	the little old woman		place of the dog; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the little old woman not said here	Majnun and Majnun			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majnun=Topic
5	want in a quote	present	the little old woman = woman				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the little old woman = woman not said here	you			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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