Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 69

Once there lived a great Raja, whose name was Salabhan, and he had a Queen, by name Lona, who, though she wept and prayed at many a shrine, had never a child to gladden her eyes.

Who acts: name, Raja, Lona, Salabhan · What happens: live, be, have, weep, pray, gladden · To what, where: great Raja, Salabhan, Queen, many shrine, child, eyes

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Raja, Lona, Salabhan), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 lived	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lived	expl
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Raja	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Raja	amod
6	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Salabhan	punct
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Salabhan	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Salabhan	cop
11	Salabhan	Salabhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Raja	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Lona	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 name	case
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Lona	obl
21	Lona	Lona	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wept	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 wept	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wept	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 wept	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wept	nsubj
27	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Lona	acl:relcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 prayed	cc
29	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wept	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 shrine	case
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shrine	amod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 shrine	det
33	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 prayed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	conj
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 child	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 child	det
38	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 gladden	mark
40	gladden	gladden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 child	acl
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 eyes	nmod:poss
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 gladden	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a great Raja	there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Salabhan's name	Salabhan			tree rules
3	have	past	Raja	a Queen		Lona obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient
4	weep	past	Lona				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pray	past	Lona not said here		a many shrine		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	have	past	Raja not said here	a child			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
7	gladden	to-infinitive	Raja not said here	Lona's eyes			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer
8	name		Salabhan				nom name «communication 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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