Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 109

The next morning the Brahmani took the paper, and while she was going along the road to the darbar reading it, the king's son met her, and asked what she was reading, whereupon she replied that she held in her hands a paper containing certain bits of advice, for which she wanted a lac of rupees.

Who acts: Brahmani, scrap, darbar, son, paper · What happens: take, go, read, meet, ask, reply · To what, where: paper, road, scrap, hands, certain bits, lac · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahmani, scrap, darbar, son), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Brahmani	det
5	Brahmani	Brahmani	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 paper	det
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 met	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 met	cc
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 going	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 going	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 met	advcl
15	along	along	ADP	_	17 road	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 road	det
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 darbar	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 darbar	det
20	darbar	darbar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 road	nmod
21	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 darbar	acl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reading	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 king	case
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 met	nsubj
28	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 met	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 asked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 asked	cc
32	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 reading	obj
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 reading	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 reading	aux
36	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 asked	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 replied	punct
38	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	40 replied	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 replied	nsubj
40	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 asked	parataxis
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 held	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 held	nsubj
43	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 replied	advcl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 hands	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 hands	nmod:poss
46	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 held	obl
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 paper	det
48	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hands	conj
49	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 paper	acl
50	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 bits	amod
51	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 containing	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 advice	case
53	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 bits	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 wanted	punct
55	for	for	ADP	_	56 which	case
56	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 wanted	obl
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 wanted	nsubj
58	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 held	conj
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 lac	det
60	lac	lac	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 wanted	obj
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 rupees	case
62	rupees	rupee	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 lac	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Brahmani	the paper		morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	scrap		the road to the darbar			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location
3	read	gerund	the darbar not said here	paper				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	meet	past	the king's son	scrap				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
5	ask speech: ask	past	the Brahmani not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	read	past · progressive	scrap					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
7	reply speech: assert	past	scrap				whereupon property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	hold	past	scrap		scrap's hands and a paper			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
9	contain	gerund	a paper not said here	certain bits of advice				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bit=Theme
10	want	past	scrap	a lac of rupees				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lac=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/109/