Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 110

When Shankar had caressed and loved him, he swallowed him again for another six months.

Who acts: Shankar, Boy · What happens: caress, love, swallow · To what, where: Shankar

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 (Shankar, Boy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 caressed	advmod
2	Shankar	Shankar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 caressed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caressed	aux
4	caressed	caress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 loved	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 loved	cc
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loved	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swallowed	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 swallowed	nsubj
10	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loved	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 swallowed	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 swallowed	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 months	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 months	det
15	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 months	nummod
16	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swallowed	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	caress	past · perfect	Shankar			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	love	past		Shankar		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	swallow	past	Boy	Shankar	again; month	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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