Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 97

When she had been in the house three days, she began to talk of the charmed ring, and advised her to keep it instead of her husband, because the latter was constantly out shooting and on other such-like expeditions, and might lose it.

Who acts: princess · What happens: be, begin, talk, charm, advise, keep · To what, where: house, princess, Ring · 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 (princess), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 house	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 house	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 house	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 house	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	obl
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 house	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 house	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 talk	mark
14	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 ring	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ring	det
17	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ring	amod
18	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talk	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 advised	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 advised	cc
21	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 advised	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 keep	mark
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 advised	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 keep	obj
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	29 husband	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 husband	nmod:poss
29	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keep	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 latter	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 latter	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 latter	det
33	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 shooting	amod
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 shooting	aux
35	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	37 shooting	advmod
36	out	out	ADV	_	37 shooting	advmod
37	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 advised	ccomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 expeditions	cc
39	on	on	ADP	_	44 expeditions	case
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 expeditions	amod
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 like	amod
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 such	punct
43	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 expeditions	amod
44	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shooting	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 lose	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 lose	cc
47	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 lose	aux
48	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 began	parataxis
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 lose	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	princess		the house	day		tree rules
2	begin	past	princess					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	talk	to-infinitive	princess not said here				of the charmed ring	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	charm	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	advise speech: other	past	princess not said here	princess				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here	Ring			instead princess's husband	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	shoot	past · progressive					constantly, out property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	lose	might		Ring				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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