Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 85

Now, as they passed him, their full pitchers poised upon their heads, the gay young Prince flung stones at the earthen vessels, and broke them all.

Who acts: women, gay young Prince · What happens: pass, poise, fling, break · To what, where: heart, full pitchers, stones, earthen vessels, women

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 (women, gay young Prince), 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	5 passed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 passed	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 passed	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 passed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pitchers	punct
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pitchers	nmod:poss
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pitchers	amod
10	pitchers	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	obl
11	poised	poise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pitchers	acl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 heads	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod:poss
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 poised	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flung	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Prince	det
17	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Prince	amod
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Prince	amod
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 flung	nsubj
20	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flung	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 vessels	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 vessels	det
24	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 vessels	amod
25	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flung	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 broke	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 broke	cc
28	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 broke	obj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 them	nmod:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	women = woman	heart		now	women's full pitchers obl	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory
2	poise	participle		women's full pitchers not said here			upon women's heads	tree rules
3	fling	past	the gay young Prince	stones	the earthen vessels			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at vessel=Destination
4	break	past	women = woman not said here	women = woman				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient

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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