Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 22

The holy man bade her prostrate herself before him, and when she had remained in this position for about three hours, he told her to rise and go, for she was cured.

Who acts: bade, king · What happens: remain, tell, rise, go, cure · To what, where: position, bade · 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 (bade, king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bade	det
2	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bade	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bade	compound
4	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prostrate	nsubj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 prostrate	nmod:poss
6	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 prostrate	obl
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prostrate	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remained	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remained	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 remained	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remained	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 remained	aux
15	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 prostrate	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 position	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 position	det
18	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remained	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 hours	case
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 three	advmod
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hours	nummod
22	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 remained	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prostrate	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 rise	mark
28	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 go	cc
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 rise	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cured	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 cured	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cured	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 cured	aux:pass
35	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 told	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prostrate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	remain	past · perfect	bade			this position	hour	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in position=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	king		bade			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	rise not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	infinitive	king not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cure	past · passive		bade				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source

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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