Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 71

Queen Lona returned to the palace, and when the time for the birth of the promised son drew nigh, she inquired of three Jogis who came begging to her gate, what the child's fate would be, and the youngest of them answered and said, "Oh, Queen! the child will be a boy, and he will live to be a great man.

Who acts: Queen, time, fate, youngest, child · What happens: return, promise, draw, inquire, come, beg · To what, where: gate, boy, great man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Queen, time, fate, youngest), 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	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 returned	nsubj
2	Lona	Lona	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Queen	flat
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 inquired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 inquired	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 drew	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drew	nsubj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 birth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birth	det
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 son	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 son	det
17	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 son	amod
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 birth	nmod
19	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 inquired	advcl
20	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	19 drew	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drew	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 inquired	nsubj
23	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 three	case
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 came	obl
26	Jogis	Jogis	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 three	nmod:unmarked
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 inquired	conj
29	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 came	xcomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 gate	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 gate	nmod:poss
32	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 begging	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 be	punct
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 be	obj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 child	det
36	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fate	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 child	case
38	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 be	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 be	aux
40	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 gate	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 answered	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 answered	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 youngest	det
44	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	47 answered	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 youngest	nmod
47	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	parataxis
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 said	cc
49	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 answered	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Queen	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 Queen	punct
52	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	54 Queen	discourse
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 Oh	punct
54	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 said	ccomp
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	54 Queen	punct
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 child	det
57	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 boy	nsubj
58	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 boy	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 boy	cop
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 boy	det
61	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 Queen	acl:relcl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 live	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 live	cc
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 live	nsubj
65	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 live	aux
66	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 returned	parataxis
67	to	to	PART	_	71 man	mark
68	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	71 man	cop
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 man	det
70	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 man	amod
71	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 live	advcl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	Queen		to the palace	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	participle				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	draw	past	the time for the birth of the promised son		nigh property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	inquire speech: other	past	Queen			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	past			of three Jogis	tree rules
6	beg speech: request	gerund			to Queen's gate	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
7	be	would	the child's fate	Queen's gate		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
8	answer speech: assert	past	the youngest of eyes			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: express	past	the youngest of eyes not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	is a in a quote	future	the child	a boy		tree rules
11	live in a quote	future	child			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	child not said here	a great man		tree rules
13	fate		the child			nom fate «event 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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