Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 55

So saying, he threw the sweetmeats to Raja Sarkap's dog, which had followed the slave, and lo! the dog died.

Who acts: Raja, dog · What happens: say, throw, follow, die · To what, where: sweetmeats, dog · 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 (Raja, dog), 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	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 threw	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 threw	nsubj
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sweetmeats	det
7	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 threw	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 dog	case
9	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Sarkap	compound
10	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dog	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Sarkap	case
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 followed	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 followed	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 followed	aux
16	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 dog	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 slave	det
18	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 followed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 died	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 died	cc
21	lo	lo	INTJ	_	25 died	discourse
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 lo	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dog	det
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Raja not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	throw	past	Raja	the sweetmeats	Raja Sarkap's dog	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Theme to dog=Destination
3	follow	past · perfect · passive		Raja Sarkap's dog		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme slave=Attribute
4	die	past	the dog			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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