Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 12

The child now lived in Suri's stomach; and when one whole year had passed, and he was two years old, the cow went out to the plain, and said to herself, "I do not know whether the child is alive or dead.

Who acts: child, Suri, cow, I · What happens: live, pass, be, go out, say, not know · To what, where: stomach, cow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (child, Suri, cow, I), 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 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lived	advmod
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 stomach	case
6	Suri	Suri	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stomach	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Suri	case
8	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 passed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 passed	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 passed	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 year	nummod
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 year	amod
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passed	obl:unmarked
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 passed	aux
16	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lived	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 old	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 old	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 old	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 old	cop
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 old	obl:unmarked
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 passed	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cow	det
26	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	conj
28	out	out	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 plain	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 plain	det
31	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 herself	case
36	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 said	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 know	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 know	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 know	nsubj
40	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 know	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 know	advmod
42	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 said	conj
43	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	47 alive	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 child	det
45	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 alive	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 alive	cop
47	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 know	ccomp
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 dead	cc
49	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 alive	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the child		Suri's stomach	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stomach=Location
2	pass	past · perfect	the child not said here			year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Suri			year	old property	tree rules
4	go out	past	the cow				to the plain; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past		cow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
6	not know in a quote	present · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is in a quote	present	the child				alive property	tree rules
8	be in a quote		the child not said here					tree rules

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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