Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 44

The seven Queens were delighted to possess so marvellous an animal, and though they toiled from morning till night making curds and whey, besides selling milk to the confectioners, they could not use half the cow gave, and became richer and richer day by day.

Who acts: seven Queens, Queens, cow · What happens: be, possess, toil, make, sell, not use · To what, where: animal, curds, milk, confectioners, richer day

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 (seven Queens, Queens, cow), 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	3 Queens	det
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 Queens	nummod
3	Queens	Queen	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 delighted	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	cop
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 possess	mark
7	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 delighted	advcl
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 animal	advmod
9	marvellous	marvellous	X	Foreign=Yes	11 animal	dep
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 animal	det
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possess	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 use	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 use	cc
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 toiled	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 toiled	nsubj
16	toiled	toil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 use	advcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 morning	case
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 toiled	obl
19	till	till	ADP	_	20 night	case
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 toiled	obl
21	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 toiled	advcl
22	curds	curd	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 making	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 whey	cc
24	whey	whey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 curds	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 selling	punct
26	besides	besides	ADP	_	27 selling	mark
27	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 making	conj
28	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 selling	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 confectioners	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 confectioners	det
31	confectioners	confectioner	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 selling	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 toiled	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 use	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 use	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 use	advmod
36	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 delighted	advcl
37	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	39 cow	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cow	det
39	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gave	nsubj
40	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 use	ccomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 became	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 became	cc
43	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 gave	conj
44	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 day	amod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 richer	cc
46	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 richer	conj
47	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 became	xcomp
48	by	by	ADP	_	49 day	case
49	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 day	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the seven Queens				delighted property	tree rules
2	possess	to-infinitive	the seven Queens not said here	a animal				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot animal=Theme
3	toil	past	Queens = queen			morning; night		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	gerund	Queens = queen not said here	curds and whey				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset curd=Product
5	sell	gerund	Queens = queen not said here	milk	the confectioners			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to confectioner=Recipient
6	not use	could	Queens = queen					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	give	past	half cow					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	become	past	half cow not said here	richer day by day				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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