Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 113

For three more nights the boy sang in the King's garden, and each night the princess came and asked him the same questions as before, and the boy gave her the same answers.

Who acts: boy, princess · What happens: sing, come, ask, give · To what, where: garden, same questions, boy, same answers, princess

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, princess), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 nights	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nights	nummod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 nights	amod
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sang	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	nsubj
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 garden	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 King	case
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sang	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl:unmarked
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sang	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	iobj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 questions	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 questions	amod
25	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 asked	obj
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 before	case
27	before	before	ADV	_	21 asked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gave	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 boy	det
31	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	nsubj
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sang	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	iobj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 answers	det
35	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 answers	amod
36	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gave	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the boy			the King's garden	night	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
2	come	past	the princess				night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	the princess not said here	the same questions	boy			tree rules
4	give	past	the boy	the same answers	princess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient answer=Theme

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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