Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 91

Now the grain merchant lived near the King's palace, and one night at twelve o'clock the boy was very hot; so he went out into the King's cool garden, and began to sing a lovely song.

Who acts: grain merchant, one night, merchant · What happens: live, be, go out, begin, sing · To what, where: palace, cool garden, lovely song

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 (grain merchant, one night, merchant), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
3	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 merchant	compound
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	10 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 palace	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 King	case
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hot	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hot	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 night	nummod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hot	nsubj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 o'clock	case
16	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 o'clock	nummod
17	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 night	nmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hot	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hot	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 hot	advmod
22	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lived	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	33 garden	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 garden	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 King	case
32	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 garden	amod
33	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 began	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 began	cc
36	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 sing	mark
38	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 began	xcomp
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 song	det
40	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 song	amod
41	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sing	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the grain merchant		the King's palace	now		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near palace=Location
2	is	past	one night at twelve o'clock				hot property	tree rules
3	go out	past	merchant		the King's cool garden		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	the grain merchant not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	the grain merchant not said here	a lovely song				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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