Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 121

Now, very soon after the seven wretched hapless Queens had their eyes torn out, and were cast into prison, a baby was born to the youngest of the Queens.

Who acts: seven wretched hapless Queens · What happens: have, tear out, cast, bear · To what, where: eyes, prison, baby

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 (seven wretched hapless Queens), 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	11 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 Queens	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	10 Queens	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queens	det
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 Queens	nummod
8	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Queens	amod
9	hapless	hapless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Queens	amod
10	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 eyes	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 torn	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cast	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cast	cc
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cast	aux:pass
19	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 had	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 prison	case
21	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cast	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 born	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 baby	det
24	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 born	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 born	aux:pass
26	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 cast	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 youngest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 youngest	det
29	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 born	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Queens	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Queens	det
32	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 youngest	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the seven wretched hapless Queens	slaves's eyes		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	tear out	participle		slaves's eyes not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cast	past · passive	the seven wretched hapless Queens not said here		prison			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: into prison=Product
4	bear	past · passive		a baby			to the youngest	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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