Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 141

As soon as her work was over the old woman came and sat down with her lodgers.

Who acts: work, old woman, woman · What happens: be, come, sit down, work

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 (work, old woman, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 came	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 woman	mark
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 work	nmod:poss
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woman	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 woman	cop
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 woman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 lodgers	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lodgers	nmod:poss
17	lodgers	lodger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sat	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	woman's work	over the old woman	tree rules
2	come	past	the old woman	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit down	past	the old woman not said here	with woman's lodgers	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work		woman		nom work «act intransitive»: 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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