Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 82

Then he saddled his Arab horse Bhaunr, put on his shining armour, and rode forth into the world; but mindful of what his nurses had oft told him, when he came to the river, he dismounted, and, going into the water, washed himself and his clothes.

Who acts: Rasalu, nurses · What happens: saddle, put, shine, ride, have, tell · To what, where: Arab horse Bhaunr, shining armour, world, Rasalu, river, water · 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 (Rasalu, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saddled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saddled	nsubj
3	saddled	saddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Bhaunr	nmod:poss
5	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Bhaunr	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Bhaunr	compound
7	Bhaunr	bhaunr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saddled	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saddled	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 armour	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 armour	nmod:poss
12	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 armour	amod
13	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rode	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rode	cc
16	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saddled	conj
17	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 rode	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rode	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 mindful	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 mindful	cc
23	mindful	mindful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saddled	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 mindful	obl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nurses	nmod:poss
27	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 what	acl:relcl
29	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 had	xcomp
30	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 oft	csubj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 told	iobj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 came	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saddled	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 river	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 river	det
38	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 dismounted	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 dismounted	nsubj
41	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saddled	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 washed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 washed	cc
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 going	punct
45	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 washed	ccomp
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 water	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 water	det
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 going	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 going	punct
50	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 dismounted	conj
51	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	50 washed	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 clothes	cc
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 clothes	nmod:poss
54	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	51 himself	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saddled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	saddle	past	Rasalu	Rasalu's Arab horse Bhaunr			then		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bhaunr=Destination
2	put	infinitive	Rasalu not said here			Rasalu's shining armour			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on armour=Destination
3	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ride	past	Rasalu not said here			the world		forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into world=Trajectory
5	have	past	Rasalu's nurses					oft property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	participle			Rasalu				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	come	past	Rasalu			the river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
8	dismount	past	Rasalu						vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	go	gerund				the water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
10	wash	past	Rasalu not said here	Rasalu					tree rules

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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