Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 95

The nurse took the little child and put him into a box, and the four Queens went back to the gardener's daughter.

Who acts: nurse, four Queens · What happens: take, put, go back · To what, where: little child, nurse, box

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 (nurse, four Queens), 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	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 box	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 box	det
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queens	det
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 Queens	nummod
17	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 daughter	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gardener	det
22	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 daughter	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 gardener	case
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the nurse	the little child			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination
2	put	infinitive	the nurse not said here	nurse	a box		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
3	go back	past	the four Queens			to the gardener's daughter result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to daughter=Result

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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