Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 134

Now in that palace there was a maid named Jihva (which means Tongue), who, with the assistance of her brother, had stolen that treasure from the interior of the palace.

Who acts: maid, Jihva · What happens: be, name, mean, steal, assist · To what, where: palace, maid, Tongue, Jihva, interior, brother

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, Jihva), 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	6 was	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 palace	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 palace	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 maid	det
8	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 maid	acl
10	Jihva	Jihva	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 named	xcomp
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 means	nsubj
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Jihva	parataxis
14	Tongue	Tongue	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 means	obj
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stolen	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 stolen	nsubj:pass
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 assistance	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 assistance	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 assistance	det
21	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stolen	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 brother	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brother	nmod:poss
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 assistance	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 assistance	punct
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stolen	aux
27	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Jihva	acl
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 treasure	det
29	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stolen	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 interior	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 interior	det
32	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stolen	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 palace	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 palace	det
35	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 interior	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	a maid		that palace; there	now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
2	name	participle		a maid not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	Jihva	Tongue			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Topic
4	steal	past · perfect · passive		Jihva	the interior of the palace		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary treasure=Theme
5	assist			maid's brother			nom assistance «act transitive»: of=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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