Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 102

From her covering her face with lotus petals I learn her name, and from her showing you the ivory box I learn where she lives.

Who acts: fairy, I · What happens: cover, learn, show, live, name · To what, where: face, name, ivory box, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, I), 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	From	from	SCONJ	_	3 covering	mark
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 covering	nsubj
3	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covering	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 petals	case
7	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 petals	compound
8	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covering	obl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 learn	nsubj
10	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 petals	acl:relcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 learn	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 showing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 showing	cc
15	from	from	SCONJ	_	17 showing	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 showing	nmod:poss
17	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 covering	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 showing	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 box	det
20	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 box	compound
21	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 showing	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 learn	nsubj
23	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 box	acl:relcl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 lives	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lives	nsubj
26	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 learn	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 covering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cover	gerund	fairy	fairy's face		with lotus petals	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with petal=Theme
2	learn	present	I	fairy's name			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
3	show	gerund	fairy not said here	the ivory box	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient box=Topic
4	learn	present	I	the ivory box not said here			tree rules
5	live	present	fairy				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	name		fairy				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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