Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 88

Meanwhile the four other Queens came to her, and they said, "Here it is the custom before a child is born to bind its mother's eyes with a handkerchief that she may not see it just at first.

Who acts: four other Queens, Queens, knowledge, gardener · What happens: come, say, be, bear, bind, not see · To what, where: gardener, custom, child, eyes, eye · 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 (four other Queens, Queens, knowledge, 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queens	det
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Queens	nummod
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Queens	amod
5	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Here	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Here	punct
15	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 said	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 custom	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 custom	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 custom	det
19	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Here	parataxis
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 born	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 child	det
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 born	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 born	aux:pass
24	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 bind	mark
26	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 born	xcomp
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eyes	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 mother	case
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bind	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 handkerchief	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 handkerchief	det
33	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bind	obl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 see	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 see	nsubj
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 see	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 see	advmod
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 bind	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 see	obj
40	just	just	ADV	_	42 first	advmod
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 first	case
42	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 see	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the four other Queens		gardener	meanwhile property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Queens = queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	knowledge	the custom			tree rules
4	bear in a quote	present · passive		a child			tree rules
5	bind in a quote	to-infinitive		child's mother's eyes		with a handkerchief	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with handkerchief=Co-Patient
6	not see in a quote	may	gardener	eye		first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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