Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 67

So the prince entered, and was most affectionately greeted by his old parents; and he laid his hands on their eyes, and they saw again.

Who acts: prince, old parents, hands · What happens: enter, greet, lay, see · To what, where: hands, eyes

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 (prince, old parents, hands), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 entered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 greeted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 greeted	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 greeted	aux:pass
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 affectionately	advmod
9	affectionately	affectionately	ADV	_	10 greeted	advmod
10	greeted	greet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 entered	parataxis
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 parents	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 parents	nmod:poss
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 parents	amod
14	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 greeted	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 laid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laid	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 laid	nsubj
18	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 laid	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 eyes	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 laid	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	conj
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 saw	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the prince					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	greet speech: greet	past · passive	prince's old parents				affectionately property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lay	past	prince	prince's hands	hands's eyes			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on eye=Destination
4	see	past	hands = hand			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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