Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 14

Then she brought up the boy; and he played about, and Suri was delighted; she loved him and caressed him, and talked to him.

Who acts: child, boy, Suri · What happens: bring up, play about, be, love, caress, talk · To what, where: boy, Suri

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, boy, Suri), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 brought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 brought	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 played	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 played	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 played	nsubj
10	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 played	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 delighted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 delighted	cc
14	Suri	Suri	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 delighted	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 delighted	cop
16	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 played	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 loved	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 loved	nsubj
19	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 loved	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 caressed	cc
22	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 loved	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 caressed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 talked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 talked	cc
26	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 talked	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring up	past	child	the boy		then		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
2	play about	past	boy				about property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Suri				delighted property	tree rules
4	love	past	child	Suri				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	caress	past	child not said here	Suri				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer
6	talk	past	child not said here		Suri			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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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