Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 82

Then the kitten went and sat at the window through which the rat Dhol Raja used to come, and the game began.

Who acts: kitten, rat, game · What happens: go, sit, use, come, begin · To what, where: window

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 (kitten, rat, game), 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	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kitten	det
3	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sat	cc
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	through	through	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 used	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rat	det
13	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 used	nsubj
14	Dhol	Dhol	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rat	appos
15	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Dhol	flat
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 come	mark
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 game	det
22	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the kitten		then	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	the kitten not said here	the window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
3	use	past	the rat			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	come	to-infinitive	the rat not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	the game			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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