Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 136

Your four wicked Queens told you the gardener's daughter had given you a stone and not a son; but it was they who put the stone in my little bed, and then they tried to kill me."

Who acts: four wicked Queens, daughter, country, sons · What happens: tell, give, be, put, try, kill · To what, where: you, stone, sons, little bed, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four wicked Queens, daughter, country, sons), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Queens	nmod:poss
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Queens	nummod
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Queens	amod
4	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gardener	det
8	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 gardener	case
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 given	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stone	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 son	cc
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 son	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 son	det
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stone	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 they	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 they	cop
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 put	nsubj
26	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stone	det
28	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 bed	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 bed	nmod:poss
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bed	amod
32	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tried	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tried	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 tried	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tried	nsubj
37	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 kill	mark
39	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 tried	xcomp
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 kill	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Your four wicked Queens		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give	past · perfect	the gardener's daughter	a stone and a son	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient stone=Theme
3	is a	past	country	sons = son				tree rules
4	put	past	sons = son	the stone		my little bed		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in bed=Destination
5	try	past	sons = son				then	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here	me				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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