Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 40

The King's sons are sitting in the cellar eating their food; you go and fetch a grain from there; why should you take mine from me?"

Who acts: sons, cellar, you · What happens: sit, eat, go, fetch, take · To what, where: cellar, food, grain, mine

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, cellar, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sons	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sitting	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cellar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cellar	det
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cellar	acl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eating	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fetch	cc
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 go	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 grain	det
19	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fetch	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 there	case
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 fetch	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 take	advmod
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 take	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 take	nsubj
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
27	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 take	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 take	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive	the King's sons		the cellar		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location
2	eat	gerund	the cellar not said here	children's food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	go	present	you				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	present	you not said here	a grain			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent grain=Theme from there=Source
5	take	should	you	mine		from me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent my=Theme from i=Initial_Location

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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