Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 27

Well, we were passing through a corn-field, when he asked me whether it was eaten or not."

Who acts: we, man · What happens: pass, ask, eat · To what, where: corn field, me, field

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, man), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 passing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 passing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passing	aux
5	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	10 field	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 field	det
8	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 field	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 corn	punct
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 asked	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passing	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 asked	iobj
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	19 eaten	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eaten	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 eaten	aux:pass
19	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 asked	advcl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 not	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 eaten	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passing	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 passing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	we			a corn field	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through field=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	man		me		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	eat	past · passive		field			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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