Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 91

The four wives then tied a handkerchief over them.

Who acts: four wives · What happens: tie · To what, where: handkerchief

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 wives), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wives	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 wives	nummod
3	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tied	advmod
5	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 handkerchief	det
7	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tied	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	the four wives	a handkerchief			then	over Queens = queen	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/91/