Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 29

After this he set off to marry the Princess, as he had promised, but when passing by the white Queen's palace he saw some pigeons on the roof.

Who acts: lad · What happens: set off, marry, promise, pass, see · To what, where: Princess, pigeons, roof

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 (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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 set	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 marry	mark
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marry	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 promised	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 promised	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 promised	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 promised	aux
14	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 marry	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 passing	advmod
18	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 saw	advcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	24 palace	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Queen	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Queen	amod
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 palace	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Queen	case
24	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passing	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 pigeons	det
28	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 saw	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 roof	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 roof	det
31	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	lad			after this		tree rules
2	marry	to-infinitive	lad not said here	the Princess				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
3	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	lad					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	pass	gerund	lad not said here				by the white Queen's palace	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by palace=Location
5	see	past	lad	some pigeons	the roof			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pigeon=Stimulus

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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