Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 26

Ere long he arrived at the hovel in the ravine where the white witch's mother, a hideous old creature, grumbled dreadfully on reading the message, especially when the lad asked for the necklace of eyes.

Who acts: son, lad · What happens: arrive, grumble, read, ask · To what, where: hovel, message

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, lad), 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	Ere	ere	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 arrived	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 hovel	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hovel	det
7	hovel	hovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 ravine	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ravine	det
10	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hovel	nmod
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 mother	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 witch	det
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 witch	amod
14	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mother	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 witch	case
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ravine	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 creature	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 creature	det
19	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 creature	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 creature	amod
21	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ravine	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grumbled	punct
23	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
24	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	23 grumbled	advmod
25	on	on	SCONJ	_	26 reading	mark
26	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 grumbled	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 message	det
28	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reading	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 asked	punct
30	especially	especially	ADV	_	34 asked	advmod
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 asked	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lad	det
33	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 asked	nsubj
34	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 necklace	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 necklace	det
37	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 asked	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 eyes	case
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 necklace	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	son		the hovel in the ravine the white witch's mother and a hideous old creature	long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grumble speech: other	past	son not said here			dreadfully property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	read	gerund	son not said here	the message			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	past	the lad			for the necklace of eyes; especially property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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