Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 52

And one day, when they had become very intimate with him, they said to the tortoise:

Who acts: hamsas · What happens: become, say · To what, where: tortoise · 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 (hamsas), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 become	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 become	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
8	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 day	acl:relcl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 intimate	advmod
10	intimate	intimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 become	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 intimate	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 tortoise	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tortoise	det
18	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	hamsas = hamsa					intimate property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	hamsas = hamsa		the tortoise		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to tortoise=Recipient

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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