Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 64

Then they began to play, and it fell to Rasalu's lot to make the first move.

Who acts: stakes, head · What happens: begin, play, fall, make · To what, where: first move

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 (stakes, head), 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 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 play	mark
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 lot	case
11	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lot	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Rasalu	case
13	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fell	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 move	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 move	amod
18	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	stakes = stake		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	play	to-infinitive	stakes = stake not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	head			to Rasalu's lot	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lot=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	head not said here	the first move			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset move=Product

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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