Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 3

All these things he brought home to his seven mothers, as he loved to call the seven blind Queens, who by his help lived on in their dungeon when all the world thought they had starved to death ages before.

Who acts: things, boy, seven blind Queens, world · What happens: bring, love, call, live on, think, starve · To what, where: seven mothers, seven blind Queens, dungeon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (things, boy, seven blind Queens, world), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 things	det:predet
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 things	det
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brought	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	nsubj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 mothers	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mothers	nmod:poss
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 mothers	nummod
10	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 loved	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 loved	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loved	nsubj
14	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 call	mark
16	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 loved	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queens	det
18	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 Queens	nummod
19	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Queens	amod
20	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 call	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lived	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lived	nsubj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 help	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 help	nmod:poss
25	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	obl
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Queens	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	26 lived	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 dungeon	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 dungeon	nmod:poss
30	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	obl
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 thought	advmod
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 world	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thought	nsubj
35	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lived	advcl
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 starved	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 starved	aux
38	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 thought	ccomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 ages	case
40	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ages	compound
41	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 starved	obl
42	before	before	ADV	_	38 starved	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	all things	boy's seven mothers			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mother=Destination
2	love	past	boy					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	call not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here	the seven blind Queens				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient
4	live on	past	the seven blind Queens		things's dungeon		by boy's help	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dungeon=Location
5	think speech: other	past	all world					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	starve	past · perfect	things = thing			to death ages	before property	tree rules
7	help		boy					nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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