Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 4

So the night passed on, dark and dreary, while Rasalu sat in the graveyard and talked to the headless corpse.

Who acts: Rasalu · What happens: pass on, sit, talk · To what, where: graveyard

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 (Rasalu), 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	_	4 passed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obl:unmarked
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 passed	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dark	punct
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 passed	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dreary	cc
9	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dark	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 sat	mark
12	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 graveyard	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 graveyard	det
16	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 talked	cc
18	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 corpse	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 corpse	det
21	headless	headless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 corpse	amod
22	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 talked	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	participle			night		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	Rasalu	the graveyard			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in graveyard=Location
3	talk	past	Rasalu not said here			to the headless corpse	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to corpse=Co-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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