Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 5

Now when morning broke and Rasalu said he must continue his journey, the headless corpse asked him whither he was going, and when he said "to play chaupur with King Sarkap," the corpse begged him to give up the idea saying, "I am King Sarkap's brother, and I know his ways.

Who acts: Rasalu, headless corpse, corpse, idea · What happens: break, say, continue, ask, go, play · To what, where: journey, Rasalu, chaupur, idea, brother, ways · 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 (Rasalu, headless corpse, corpse, idea), 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	4 broke	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 broke	advmod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obl:unmarked
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
6	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 continue	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 continue	aux
10	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 journey	nmod:poss
12	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 continue	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 corpse	det
15	headless	headless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 corpse	amod
16	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	22 going	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 going	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 asked	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 said	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 play	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 play	mark
30	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
31	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 play	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 Sarkap	case
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Sarkap	compound
34	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 play	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 begged	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 begged	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 corpse	det
38	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 begged	nsubj
39	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 play	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 begged	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 give	mark
42	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 begged	xcomp
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 give	compound:prt
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 idea	det
45	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 give	obj
46	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 idea	acl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 brother	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 King	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 King	nsubj
50	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 King	cop
51	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 brother	nmod:poss
52	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 King	flat
53	's	's	PART	_	51 King	case
54	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 saying	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 know	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 know	cc
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 know	nsubj
58	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	parataxis
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 ways	nmod:poss
60	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 know	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	break	past				now; morning		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Rasalu					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	continue	must	Rasalu	Rasalu's journey				vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	the headless corpse		Rasalu			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	go	past · progressive	Rasalu				whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	Rasalu					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	play in a quote	to-infinitive		chaupur			with King Sarkap	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with sarkap=Co-Agent
8	beg speech: request	past	the corpse		Rasalu			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
9	give up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the corpse not said here	the idea				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Source
10	say speech: assert	gerund	the idea not said here	King's brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
11	is in a quote	present	the idea = idea				's King	tree rules
12	know in a quote	present	the idea = idea	Rasalu's ways				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
13	journey		Rasalu					nom journey «act transitive»: 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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