Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 95

So they began to play, whilst the women stood round in a circle, and the kitten watched Dhol Raja from the window.

Who acts: risk, women, kitten · What happens: begin, play, stand, watch · To what, where: circle, Dhol Raja, 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 (risk, women, 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	So	so	ADV	_	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	_	10 stood	punct
7	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	10 stood	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 women	det
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 stood	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 circle	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 circle	det
14	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 watched	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 watched	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kitten	det
18	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watched	nsubj
19	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	advcl
20	Dhol	Dhol	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Raja	compound
21	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 watched	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 window	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 window	det
24	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watched	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	risk				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	play	to-infinitive	risk not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stand	past	the women		a circle	round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location
4	watch	past	the kitten	Dhol Raja	the window		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raja=Theme

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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