Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 57

Now, when evening came, Raja Rasalu went forth to play chaupur with King Sarkap, and as he passed some potters' kilns he saw a cat wandering about restlessly; so he asked what ailed her, that she never stood still, and she replied, "My kittens are in an unbaked pot in the kiln yonder.

Who acts: evening, Raja, cat, Sarkap, kittens · What happens: come, go, play, pass, see, wonder · To what, where: chaupur, kilns, cat, unbaked pot · 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 (evening, Raja, cat, Sarkap), 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	9 went	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
7	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
8	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Raja	flat
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	forth	forth	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 play	mark
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	xcomp
13	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 play	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 Sarkap	case
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Sarkap	compound
16	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 chaupur	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 potters	det
23	potters	potter	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kilns	nmod:poss
24	'	's	PART	_	23 potters	case
25	kilns	kiln	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 passed	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cat	det
29	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
30	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 cat	acl
31	about	about	ADV	_	32 restlessly	advmod
32	restlessly	restlessly	ADV	_	30 wandering	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 asked	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	36 asked	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 asked	nsubj
36	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	parataxis
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 ailed	nsubj
38	ailed	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 asked	ccomp
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ailed	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 stood	punct
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 stood	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stood	nsubj
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 stood	advmod
44	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 asked	conj
45	still	still	ADV	_	44 stood	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 replied	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 replied	cc
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 replied	nsubj
49	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 stood	parataxis
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 pot	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 pot	punct
52	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 kittens	nmod:poss
53	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 pot	nsubj
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 pot	cop
55	in	in	ADP	_	58 pot	case
56	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 pot	det
57	unbaked	unbaked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 pot	amod
58	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 replied	obl
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 kiln	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 kiln	det
61	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 pot	nmod
62	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	49 replied	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	evening					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Raja			now	forth property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	play	to-infinitive	Raja not said here	chaupur			with King Sarkap	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with sarkap=Co-Agent
4	pass	past	Raja	some potters's kilns				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kiln=Trajectory
5	see	past	Raja	a cat				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
6	wonder speech: ask	gerund	a cat not said here				restlessly property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	ask speech: ask	past	Raja					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	ail	past		cat				vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient she=Experiencer
9	not stand	past	Sarkap			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	reply speech: assert	past	Sarkap				yonder property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	is in a quote	present	My kittens		a unbaked pot		in the kiln	tree rules

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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