Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 39

So the seventy maidens climbed into one swing, and Raja Rasalu, standing in his shining armour, fastened the ropes to his mighty bow, and drew it up to its fullest bent.

Who acts: seventy maidens · What happens: climb, stand, shine, fasten, draw up, bend · To what, where: one swing, shining armour, ropes, swing

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 (seventy 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 climbed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maidens	det
3	seventy	seventy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maidens	amod
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 climbed	nsubj
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 swing	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 swing	nummod
8	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Raja	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Raja	cc
11	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	conj
12	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Raja	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 standing	punct
14	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 climbed	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 armour	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 armour	nmod:poss
17	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 armour	amod
18	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 standing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fastened	punct
20	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ropes	det
22	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fastened	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 bow	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bow	nmod:poss
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bow	amod
26	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fastened	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drew	cc
29	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 drew	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 drew	compound:prt
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 fullest	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 fullest	nmod:poss
34	fullest	full	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 drew	advcl
35	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 fullest	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	the seventy maidens		one swing		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into swing=Destination
2	stand	gerund	the seventy maidens not said here		Raja's shining armour		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armour=Location
3	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fasten	past	the seventy maidens not said here	the ropes		to Raja's mighty bow	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to bow=Co-Patient
5	draw up	past	the seventy maidens not said here	swing			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	bend	participle	the seventy maidens not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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