Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 123

Presently he came back and told the prince that he had seen a most ugly woman, whom he supposed was the robbers' housekeeper.

Who acts: ditch, ugly woman · What happens: come back, tell, see, suppose, be · To what, where: prince, ugly woman, housekeeper · 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 (ditch, ugly woman), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 seen	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
14	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 ugly	advmod
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 housekeeper	punct
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 housekeeper	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 supposed	nsubj
20	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 whom	acl:relcl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 housekeeper	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 robbers	det
23	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 housekeeper	nmod:poss
24	'	's	PART	_	23 robbers	case
25	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woman	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come back	past	ditch			presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	ditch not said here		the prince		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see	past · perfect	ditch	a ugly woman and the robbers's housekeeper			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	suppose	past	ditch				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	a ugly woman and the robbers's housekeeper	the robbers's housekeeper			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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