Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 106

Then he went to the Murti Hills, and placed the new-born babe, Kokilan, in an underground palace, and planted the mango branch at the door, saying, "In twelve years the mango tree will blossom; then will I return and marry Kokilan."

Who acts: king, mango tree · What happens: go, place, bear, plant, say, blossom · To what, where: born babe, underground palace, mango branch, door, twelve years, Kokilan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, mango tree), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 Hills	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hills	det
6	Murti	Murti	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Hills	compound
7	Hills	Hill	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 placed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 placed	cc
10	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 babe	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 born	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 new	punct
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 babe	amod
15	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 placed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Kokilan	punct
17	Kokilan	Kokilan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 babe	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 palace	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 palace	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 palace	det
21	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 palace	amod
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 placed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 planted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 planted	cc
25	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 branch	det
27	mango	mango	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 branch	compound
28	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 planted	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 door	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 planted	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 saying	punct
33	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 planted	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 years	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 years	punct
36	In	in	ADP	_	38 years	case
37	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 years	nummod
38	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 saying	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tree	det
40	mango	mango	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tree	compound
41	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 blossom	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 blossom	aux
43	blossom	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 years	acl:relcl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 return	punct
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 return	advmod
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 return	aux
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 return	nsubj
48	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	parataxis
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 marry	cc
50	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 return	conj
51	Kokilan	Kokilan	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 marry	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	king			then	to the Murti Hills	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	place	past	king not said here	the born babe	a underground palace			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent babe=Theme in palace=Destination
3	bear	participle						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	plant	past	king not said here	the mango branch	the door			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme at door=Destination
5	say speech: assert	gerund	king not said here			year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	blossom in a quote	future	the mango tree	twelve years not said here				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location year=Theme
7	return in a quote	future	king			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	marry in a quote	infinitive	king not said here	Kokilan				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kokilan=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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