Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 56

Now as time passed by and the lad did not return, the old hag grew uneasy, remembering the message "his blood shall be as your blood"; so she set off to see what had happened.

Who acts: lad, old hag, message, hag · What happens: pass, not return, grow, remember, be, set off · To what, where: time · 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 (lad, old hag, message, hag), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 grew	advmod
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 time	case
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	obl
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 time	acl
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 return	mark
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 return	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 return	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 return	advmod
11	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 passed	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hag	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hag	amod
15	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grew	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remembering	punct
19	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 grew	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 message	det
21	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blood	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 message	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 blood	nmod:poss
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blood	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 blood	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 blood	cop
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 blood	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 blood	nmod:poss
29	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remembering	ccomp
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 blood	punct
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 set	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 set	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 set	nsubj
34	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grew	conj
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 set	compound:prt
36	to	to	PART	_	37 see	mark
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 set	advcl
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 happened	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 happened	aux
40	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 see	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	participle		time not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not return	past · do-support	the lad				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	the old hag		now	uneasy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remember	gerund	the old hag not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	shall	the message			as your blood	tree rules
6	set off	past	hag				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	to-infinitive	hag not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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