Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 40

His bed was the grass spread for the cattle, and his companions were the dog, the cat, and the snake, which he had purchased so dearly.

Who acts: bed, companions · What happens: be, purchase · To what, where: dog, snake

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, companions), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bed	nmod:poss
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spread	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	nsubj
6	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 cattle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cattle	det
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dog	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dog	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 companions	nmod:poss
13	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dog	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dog	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cat	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cat	det
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dog	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 snake	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 snake	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 snake	det
23	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 purchased	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 purchased	nsubj:pass
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 purchased	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 purchased	aux
28	purchased	purchase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 snake	acl:relcl
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 dearly	advmod
30	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	28 purchased	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	man's bed		for the cattle; the snake obl; spread property	tree rules
2	is a	past	man's companions	the dog and the cat		tree rules
3	purchase	past · perfect · passive		the snake	dearly property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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