Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 119

But the white hind only laughed cruelly when she saw the fourteen eyes, and threading them as a necklace, flung it round her mother's neck, saying, "Wear that, little mother, as a keepsake, whilst I am away in the King's palace."

Who acts: white hind, hind · What happens: laugh, see, thread, fling, say, wear · To what, where: fourteen eyes, eyes, necklace, that, palace · 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 (white hind, hind), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 laughed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hind	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hind	amod
4	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughed	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 laughed	advmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	_	6 laughed	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eyes	det
12	fourteen	fourteen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flung	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flung	cc
16	threading	thread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 flung	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threading	obj
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 necklace	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 necklace	det
20	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threading	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threading	punct
22	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flung	obj
24	round	round	ADP	_	28 neck	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mother	nmod:poss
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 neck	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 mother	case
28	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flung	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saying	punct
30	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 flung	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Wear	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Wear	punct
33	Wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 saying	ccomp
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 Wear	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 mother	punct
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mother	amod
37	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Wear	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 keepsake	punct
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 keepsake	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 keepsake	det
41	keepsake	keepsake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Wear	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 away	punct
43	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	46 away	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 away	nsubj
45	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 away	cop
46	away	away	ADV	_	33 Wear	advmod
47	in	in	ADP	_	51 palace	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 King	det
49	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 palace	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 King	case
51	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 away	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the white hind			cruelly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	hind	the fourteen eyes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
3	thread	gerund		eyes = eye		as a necklace	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	fling	past	the white hind not said here	necklace		round hind's mother's neck	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	the white hind not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	wear in a quote	infinitive		that		as a keepsake; little mother obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source
7	is in a quote	present	the white hind = hind		the King's palace	away property	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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