Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 25

We are the husbands of the six elder daughters of the King of this country," they answered; "and we have hunted all day, and are very hungry and thirsty."

Who acts: We, daughters · What happens: be, answer, hunt · To what, where: husbands · 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 (We, daughters), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 husbands	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 husbands	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husbands	det
4	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 daughters	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 daughters	det
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 daughters	nummod
8	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 daughters	amod
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 husbands	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 King	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 daughters	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 country	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 country	det
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 King	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 answered	nsubj
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 husbands	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hunted	cc
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 hunted	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hunted	aux
25	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 answered	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hunted	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hungry	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hungry	cc
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 hungry	cop
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 hungry	advmod
32	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hunted	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thirsty	cc
34	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hungry	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 husbands	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 husbands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	We	the husbands		of the six elder daughters of the King of this country	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	daughters = daughter				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hunt	present · perfect	we		day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present				hungry property	tree rules
5	be						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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