Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 1

So one day the hawker stopped in a village; and whilst he was getting his own breakfast cooked, he dressed the ass in a lion's skin, and turned him loose in a barley-field.

Who acts: hawker, own breakfast · What happens: stop, get, cook, dress, turn · To what, where: village, own breakfast, ass, skin, hawker

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hawker, own breakfast), 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	_	6 stopped	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hawker	det
5	hawker	hawker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 village	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 village	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 getting	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 getting	cc
12	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	15 getting	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 getting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 getting	aux
15	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stopped	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 breakfast	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 breakfast	amod
18	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 getting	obj
19	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 getting	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dressed	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dressed	nsubj
22	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ass	det
24	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dressed	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 skin	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lion	det
27	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 skin	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 lion	case
29	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dressed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 turned	cc
32	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 turned	obj
34	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 turned	xcomp
35	in	in	ADP	_	39 field	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 field	det
37	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 field	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 barley	punct
39	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turned	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the hawker		a village	day		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
2	get	past · progressive	hawker	hawker's own breakfast				tree rules
3	cook	participle	hawker's own breakfast not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	dress	past	hawker	the ass	a lion's skin			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Patient
5	turn	past	the hawker not said here	hawker			in a barley field; loose property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient in field=Topic

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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