Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 85

Next he played for his horse, and once more Raja Sarkap called for his rat; but Dhol Raja, seeing the kitten keeping watch, was afraid.

Who acts: Rasalu, Raja Sarkap, kitten · What happens: play, call, see, keep, be · To what, where: Dhol Raja, kitten, watch · 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, Raja Sarkap, kitten), 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	Next	next	ADV	_	3 played	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 called	cc
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 Raja	amod
11	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sarkap	compound
12	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	nsubj
13	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 rat	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 rat	nmod:poss
16	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 Raja	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 Raja	cc
19	Dhol	Dhol	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Raja	compound
20	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seeing	punct
22	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 played	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kitten	det
24	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seeing	obj
25	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 kitten	acl
26	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keeping	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 afraid	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 afraid	cop
29	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 played	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	past	Rasalu	Dhol Raja	for Rasalu's horse; next property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for horse=Eventuality
2	call	past	Raja Sarkap		for Rasalu's rat	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for rat=Recipient
3	see	gerund	Rasalu not said here	the kitten		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kitten=Stimulus
4	keep	gerund	the kitten not said here	watch		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
5	is	past	Rasalu not said here		afraid property	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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