Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 79

They told one another all they had experienced since they had last seen each other, and were all very glad.

Who acts: friends · What happens: tell, experience, see, be · To what, where: one, other · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (friends), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 told	obj
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 all	det
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 one	nmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 experienced	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 experienced	aux
8	experienced	experience	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 seen	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
12	last	last	ADV	_	13 seen	advmod
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 experienced	advcl
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seen	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 glad	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 glad	cc
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 glad	cop
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 glad	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 glad	advmod
21	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	friends = friend	one all		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
2	experience	past · perfect	friends = friend			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	past · perfect	friends = friend	each other	last property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus
4	is	past			all, glad property	tree rules

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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