Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 5

Coming by chance past the palace where the white hind lived in wicked splendour and magnificence, he saw some pigeons fluttering round the white marble turrets, and, taking good aim, shot one dead.

Who acts: hind, white hind, pigeons · What happens: come, live, see, flutter, take, shoot · To what, where: wicked splendour, pigeons, good aim, one

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 (hind, white hind, pigeons), 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	Coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 saw	advcl
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 chance	case
3	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Coming	obl
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chance	nmod
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 lived	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hind	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hind	amod
10	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 palace	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 splendour	case
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 splendour	amod
14	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 magnificence	cc
16	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 splendour	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Coming	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 pigeons	det
21	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 saw	obj
22	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 pigeons	acl
23	round	round	ADP	_	27 turrets	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 turrets	det
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 turrets	amod
26	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turrets	compound
27	turrets	turret	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fluttering	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taking	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 taking	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taking	punct
31	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 saw	conj
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 aim	amod
33	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taking	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 shot	punct
35	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	conj
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 shot	obj
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 one	amod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	hind not said here			by chance past the palace	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location
2	live	past	the white hind		wicked splendour and magnificence		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in splendour=Location
3	see	past	hind	some pigeons			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pigeon=Stimulus
4	flutter	gerund	some pigeons not said here			round the white marble turrets	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	gerund	hind not said here	good aim			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme
6	shoot	past	hind not said here	one			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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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