Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 104

Now the King was very fond of hunting, and one day, before he started, the seven Queens sent him a message saying, "May it please our dearest lord not to hunt towards the north to-day, for we have dreamt bad dreams, and fear lest evil should befall you."

Who acts: King, seven Queens, message, we, fear · What happens: be, start, send, say, not hunt, dreamt · To what, where: king, bad dreams, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, seven Queens, message, we), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fond	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fond	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 fond	advmod
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 hunting	case
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fond	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunting	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 started	punct
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 started	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 started	nsubj
16	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sent	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queens	det
19	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 Queens	nummod
20	Queens	Queen	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 sent	nsubj
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 message	det
24	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obj
25	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 message	acl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hunt	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 hunt	punct
28	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 hunt	aux
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hunt	nsubj
30	please	please	INTJ	_	36 hunt	discourse
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 lord	nmod:poss
32	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 lord	amod
33	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hunt	nsubj
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 hunt	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 hunt	mark
36	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 saying	ccomp
37	towards	towards	ADP	_	39 north	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 north	det
39	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hunt	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 day	case
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 to	punct
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hunt	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 dreamt	punct
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	47 dreamt	mark
45	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 dreamt	nsubj
46	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 dreamt	aux
47	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 hunt	conj
48	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dreams	amod
49	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 dreamt	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 befall	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 befall	cc
52	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 befall	nsubj
53	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	54 evil	case
54	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fear	nmod
55	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 befall	aux
56	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sent	parataxis
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 befall	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	56 befall	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	56 befall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King		now	of hunting and one day; fond property	tree rules
2	start	past	king				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	send	past	the seven Queens	king			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	a message not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not hunt in a quote	may	message		day	towards the north	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	dreamt in a quote	present · perfect	we	bad dreams			tree rules
7	befall in a quote	should	fear lest evil	you			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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