Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 116

At this the four wives were very much frightened, and as soon as the King came home from hunting they said to him, "While you were away your dog came to our rooms, and tore our clothes and knocked about all our things.

Who acts: King, fastenings · What happens: frighten, come, hunt, say, be, tore · To what, where: four wives, King, clothes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King, fastenings), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 wives	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wives	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 wives	nummod
5	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 frightened	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	aux:pass
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 frightened	advmod
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 came	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	conj
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	from	from	SCONJ	_	20 hunting	mark
20	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 said	advcl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
27	While	while	SCONJ	_	33 came	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 came	cop
30	away	away	ADV	_	33 came	advmod
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 dog	nmod:poss
32	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 rooms	case
35	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 rooms	nmod:poss
36	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 came	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tore	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 tore	cc
39	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	parataxis
40	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 clothes	nmod:poss
41	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	39 tore	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 knocked	cc
43	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 tore	conj
44	about	about	ADP	_	47 things	case
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 things	det:predet
46	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 things	nmod:poss
47	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 knocked	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the four wives			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	come	past	the King			home, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hunt	gerund	fastenings = fastening not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	fastenings = fastening		King		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	past	King			to our rooms; away, come property	tree rules
6	tore in a quote	past		our clothes			tree rules
7	knock in a quote	past				about our things	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about thing=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/116/