Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 60

I was the grain merchant's servant; and one hot night I went into your father's garden and sang, and you heard me, and came and asked me who I was and where I came from, and I would not answer you.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, go, sing, hear, come, ask · To what, where: servant, garden, me, you · 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 (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 servant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 servant	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
4	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 merchant	compound
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 servant	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 merchant	case
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 night	nummod
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	amod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl:unmarked
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 servant	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	19 garden	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 garden	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sang	cc
21	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heard	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	parataxis
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 heard	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 asked	cc
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 asked	iobj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	31 asked	ccomp
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 who	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 who	cop
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 came	cc
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 came	advmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 was	conj
40	from	from	ADP	_	39 came	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 answer	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 answer	cc
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 answer	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 answer	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 answer	advmod
46	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 came	conj
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 answer	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 servant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	I	the grain merchant's servant				tree rules
2	go	past	I			your father's garden	night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location
3	sing speech: express	past	I not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	past	you	me				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
5	come	past	you not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	you not said here		me			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	is a	past	I					tree rules
8	come	past	I					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not answer speech: assert	would	I		you			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality

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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