Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 3

At midnight, when the ogress was sound asleep, one of the rats went to her bedside, climbed up on her face, and inserted its tail into her throat; whereupon the ogress coughed violently, and the ring came out and rolled on to the floor.

Who acts: ogress, rats, ring · What happens: be, go, climb up, insert, cough, come out · To what, where: one, bedside, face, tail, throat, floor

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 (ogress, rats, ring), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asleep	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asleep	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ogress	det
6	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asleep	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
8	sound	sound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 asleep	amod
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 went	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 rats	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rats	det
14	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 bedside	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bedside	nmod:poss
18	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 climbed	punct
20	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 climbed	compound:prt
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 face	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 face	nmod:poss
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 climbed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 inserted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 inserted	cc
27	inserted	insert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 climbed	conj
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tail	nmod:poss
29	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 inserted	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 throat	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 throat	nmod:poss
32	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 inserted	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 coughed	punct
34	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	37 coughed	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ogress	det
36	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 coughed	nsubj
37	coughed	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	conj
38	violently	violently	ADV	_	37 coughed	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 came	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 came	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ring	det
42	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 came	nsubj
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	parataxis
44	out	out	ADV	_	43 came	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 rolled	cc
46	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 came	conj
47	on	on	ADP	_	46 rolled	compound:prt
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 floor	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 floor	det
50	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 rolled	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ogress			midnight	asleep property	tree rules
2	go	past	the rats	one	her bedside			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bedside=Initial_Location
3	climb up	past			her face			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Trajectory
4	insert	past		ogress's tail	her throat			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
5	cough	past	the ogress				violently, whereupon property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come out	past	the ring				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
7	roll on	participle	the ring not said here		the floor			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to floor=Destination

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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