Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 53

Not understanding the meaning of these words, the servant repeated them word for word, as he had heard them, to his mistress; and thus his theft was discovered, and he was severely punished.

Who acts: servant · What happens: not understand, repeat, hear, discover, punish, mean · To what, where: meaning, theft, mistress, words

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 (servant), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 understanding	advmod
2	understanding	understand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 repeated	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meaning	det
4	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 understanding	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meaning	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 understanding	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repeated	nsubj
11	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 repeated	obj
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repeated	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 word	case
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 word	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 heard	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	aux
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 repeated	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mistress	punct
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 mistress	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mistress	nmod:poss
25	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 discovered	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 discovered	cc
28	thus	thus	ADV	_	32 discovered	advmod
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 theft	nmod:poss
30	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 discovered	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 discovered	aux:pass
32	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 repeated	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 punished	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 punished	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 punished	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 punished	aux:pass
37	severely	severely	ADV	_	38 punished	advmod
38	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 discovered	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not understand	gerund	the servant not said here	the meaning of this words		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus
2	repeat	past	the servant	meaning		tree rules
3	hear	past · perfect	servant	meaning		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	discover	past · passive		mistress's theft	thus property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	punish	past · passive		mistress	severely property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	mean			this words		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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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