Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 94

When they reached it they pitched their tents on the same plain in which the prince had been left in his box by the nurse, where Shankar and Suri had swallowed him so often.

Who acts: horses, nurse · What happens: reach, pitch, leave, swallow · To what, where: country, tents, same plain, prince, Shankar

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 (horses, nurse), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pitched	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pitched	nsubj
6	pitched	pitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tents	nmod:poss
8	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pitched	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 plain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plain	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plain	amod
12	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pitched	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 left	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prince	det
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 left	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 left	aux:pass
19	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 plain	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 box	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 box	nmod:poss
22	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 nurse	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nurse	det
25	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 swallowed	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 swallowed	advmod
28	Shankar	Shankar	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 swallowed	nsubj:pass
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Suri	cc
30	Suri	Suri	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Shankar	conj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 swallowed	aux
32	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 nurse	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 swallowed	obj
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 often	advmod
35	often	often	ADV	_	32 swallowed	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pitched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	horses = horse	country			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	pitch	past	horses = horse	horses's tents	the same plain		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme on plain=Destination
3	leave	past · perfect · passive	the nurse	the prince	the same plain	in prince's box	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in which=Location
4	swallow	past · perfect · passive		Shankar and Suri		often property	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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