Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 51

In a country were seven daughters of poor parents, who used to come daily to play under the shady trees in the King's garden with the gardener's daughter; and daily she used to say to them, "When I am married I shall have a son.

Who acts: poor parents, gardener · What happens: be, use, come, play, say, marry · To what, where: seven daughters, country, shady trees, daughters, gardener, son · 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 (poor parents, gardener), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 country	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughters	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daughters	cop
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 daughters	nummod
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 parents	case
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 parents	amod
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 daughters	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 parents	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	xcomp
15	daily	daily	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 play	mark
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	xcomp
18	under	under	ADP	_	21 trees	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trees	det
20	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trees	amod
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 play	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 garden	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 garden	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 King	case
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 play	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 daughter	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gardener	det
29	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 daughter	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 gardener	case
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 play	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 used	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 used	cc
34	daily	daily	ADV	_	36 used	advmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 used	nsubj
36	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daughters	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 say	mark
38	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 used	xcomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 say	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 married	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 married	punct
43	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 married	advmod
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 married	nsubj:pass
45	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 married	aux:pass
46	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 used	conj
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 have	nsubj
48	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 have	aux
49	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 married	ccomp
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 son	det
51	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 have	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 daughters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		seven daughters		a country	of poor parents	tree rules
2	use	past	poor parents					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	come	to-infinitive	poor parents not said here				daily property	tree rules
4	play	to-infinitive	poor parents not said here			the shady trees	in the King's garden; with the gardener's daughter	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with daughter=Co-Agent
5	use	past	gardener				daily property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	gardener not said here		daughters = daughter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
7	marry in a quote	present · passive		gardener				tree rules
8	have in a quote	shall	gardener	a son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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