Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 40

Then he let go, and like an arrow the swing shot into the air, with its burden of seventy fair maidens, merry and careless, full of smiles and laughter.

Who acts: Raja, swing · What happens: let, go, shoot, burden · To what, where: air, seventy fair maidens

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 (Raja, swing), 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 let	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shot	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shot	cc
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 arrow	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 arrow	det
9	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shot	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 swing	det
11	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shot	nsubj
12	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shot	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 burden	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 burden	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 burden	nmod:poss
19	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shot	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 maidens	case
21	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 maidens	nummod
22	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 maidens	amod
23	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 burden	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 merry	punct
25	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 maidens	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 careless	cc
27	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 merry	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 full	punct
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 merry	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 smiles	case
31	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 full	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 laughter	cc
33	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 smiles	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	Raja			then		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Raja not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shoot	past	the swing		the air		like a arrow; with swing's burden of seventy fair maidens	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into air=Destination
4	burden		swing	seventy fair maidens				nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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