Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 78

So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot, while the nurses taught him all things needful for a King's son to know.

Who acts: child, nurses · What happens: live, play, talk, teach, know · To what, where: child

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 (child, nurses), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 lived	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 lived	expl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 playing	punct
7	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lived	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 colt	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 colt	nmod:poss
10	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talking	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 talking	cc
13	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 playing	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 parrot	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 parrot	nmod:poss
16	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taught	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 taught	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nurses	det
20	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 taught	nsubj
21	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 taught	obj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 things	det
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 needful	nsubj
25	needful	needful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 taught	ccomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	30 son	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 King	det
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 son	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 King	case
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 needful	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 know	mark
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 son	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	the child		there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	gerund	the child not said here			with child's colt	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with colt=Theme
3	talk	gerund	the child not said here			to child's parrot	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parrot=Co-Agent
4	teach speech: other	past	the nurses	child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	know	to-infinitive	the nurses not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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