Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 111

Now at each place he came to, when he took the pack down from the ass's back, he used to clothe him in a lion's skin, and turn him loose in the rice and barley fields.

Who acts: Buddha · What happens: come, take down, use, clothe, turn, lose · To what, where: place, pack, back, Buddha, skin, rice

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 (Buddha), 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	6 came	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 place	case
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 took	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pack	det
13	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
14	down	down	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 back	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ass	det
17	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 back	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 ass	case
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 used	nsubj
22	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 clothe	mark
24	clothe	clothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 used	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 clothe	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 skin	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lion	det
28	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 skin	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 lion	case
30	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clothe	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 turn	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 turn	cc
33	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 clothe	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 turn	obj
35	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 turn	xcomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 rice	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 rice	det
38	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 loose	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fields	cc
40	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fields	compound
41	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 rice	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Buddha		each place	now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location
2	take down	past	Buddha	the pack	the ass's back		down property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme
3	use	past	Buddha					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	clothe	to-infinitive	Buddha not said here	Buddha	a lion's skin			vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	turn	infinitive	Buddha not said here	Buddha				tree rules
6	lose	infinitive	Buddha not said here		the rice and barley fields			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in rice=Eventuality

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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