Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 35

Now when the sixty-nine fair maidens, daughters of the king saw that Rasalu had performed his task, they set him another, bidding him swing them all, one by one, in their swings, until they were tired.

Who acts: nine fair maidens, Rasalu, maidens · What happens: see, perform, set, bid, swing, be · To what, where: task, Rasalu, maidens · 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 (nine fair maidens, Rasalu, maidens), 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	14 saw	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maidens	det
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nine	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sixty	punct
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 maidens	nummod
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 maidens	amod
8	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 saw	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 daughters	punct
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 maidens	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 king	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughters	nmod
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 performed	mark
16	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 performed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 performed	aux
18	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 saw	ccomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 task	nmod:poss
20	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 performed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 set	nsubj
23	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 set	obj
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 set	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bidding	punct
27	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 set	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bidding	obj
29	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 bidding	xcomp
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 swing	obj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 them	nmod:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 one	punct
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 saw	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 one	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 one	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 swings	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 swings	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 swings	nmod:poss
39	swings	swing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 saw	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 tired	punct
41	until	until	SCONJ	_	44 tired	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 tired	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 tired	cop
44	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 saw	parataxis
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the nine fair maidens and daughters of the king		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	perform	past · perfect	Rasalu	Rasalu's task			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme
3	set	past	maidens = maiden	Rasalu			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Theme another=Destination
4	bid	gerund	maidens = maiden not said here	Rasalu			tree rules
5	swing	infinitive	maidens = maiden not said here	maidens = maiden			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	is	past	maidens = maiden			tired property	tree rules
7	task		Rasalu				nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent
8	swing		maidens = maiden				nom swing «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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