Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 140

Their six husbands used to go out hunting every day, and every evening they brought home quantities of all kinds of game to their wives, and the game was cooked for their dinner and for the King's; but the husband of the youngest princess always stayed at home in the palace, and never went out hunting at all.

Who acts: six husbands, sisters, husband · What happens: use, go out, hunt, bring, cook, stay · To what, where: quantities, wives, game, home, all

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 (six husbands, sisters, husband), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husbands	nmod:poss
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 husbands	nummod
3	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 go	advcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunting	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 evening	det
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obl:unmarked
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	nsubj
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	conj
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 brought	advmod
18	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brought	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 kinds	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 kinds	det
21	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 quantities	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 game	case
23	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kinds	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 wives	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wives	nmod:poss
26	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brought	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cooked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cooked	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 game	det
30	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cooked	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cooked	aux:pass
32	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 used	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 dinner	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 dinner	nmod:poss
35	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cooked	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 King	cc
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 King	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 King	det
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 dinner	appos
40	's	's	PART	_	39 King	case
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 stayed	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 stayed	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 husband	det
44	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 stayed	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 princess	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 princess	det
47	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 princess	amod
48	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 husband	nmod
49	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	50 stayed	advmod
50	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	parataxis
51	at	at	ADP	_	52 home	case
52	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 stayed	obl
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 palace	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 palace	det
55	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 stayed	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 went	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 went	cc
58	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	59 went	advmod
59	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 stayed	conj
60	out	out	ADP	_	59 went	compound:prt
61	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 went	xcomp
62	at	at	ADP	_	63 all	case
63	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	61 hunting	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	sisters's six husbands						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go out	to-infinitive	sisters's six husbands not said here					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hunt	gerund	sisters's six husbands not said here				day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring	past	sisters = sister	quantities of all kinds of game	sisters's wives		evening	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme to wife=Destination
5	cook	past · passive		the game				for sisters's dinner	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for dinner=Beneficiary
6	stay	past	the husband of the youngest princess			home		in the palace; always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
7	not go out	past	the husband of the youngest princess not said here						tree rules
8	hunt	gerund	the husband of the youngest princess not said here			all			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location

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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