Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 51

As soon as all were ready, Gangazara took a vessel full of water and sprinkled it over them all, thinking only of his snake-king and tiger-king.

Who acts: all, Gangazara · What happens: be, take, sprinkle, think · To what, where: vessel

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 (all, Gangazara), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 ready	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 ready	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ready	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	cop
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
8	Gangazara	Gangazara	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vessel	det
11	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 vessel	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 water	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sprinkled	cc
16	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sprinkled	obj
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sprinkled	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 them	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thinking	punct
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sprinkled	advcl
23	only	only	ADV	_	28 king	advmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 king	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 king	nmod:poss
26	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 king	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 snake	punct
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thinking	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 king	cc
30	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 king	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 tiger	punct
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 king	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	all		ready, soon property	tree rules
2	take	past	Gangazara	a vessel		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme
3	sprinkle	past	Gangazara not said here	vessel	over corpses = corpse	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over they=Destination
4	think speech: other	gerund	Gangazara not said here		of Gangazara's snake king and tiger king	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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