Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 18

As soon as the woman recovered her senses she told them that two young men had passed by the place with their bows and arrows, and that one of them had most deliberately aimed at her as she stood by the window.

Who acts: woman, place, one · What happens: recover, tell, pass, have, aim, stand · To what, where: senses, two young men · 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 (woman, place, one), 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	6 recovered	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 recovered	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recovered	nsubj
6	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 senses	nmod:poss
8	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recovered	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recovered	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 passed	mark
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 men	nummod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 passed	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 passed	aux
17	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 told	ccomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 place	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 place	det
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passed	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 bows	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bows	nmod:poss
23	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 place	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 arrows	cc
25	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bows	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 one	mark
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 had	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 one	nmod
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recovered	conj
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	35 aimed	advmod
34	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	35 aimed	advmod
35	aimed	aim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 had	xcomp
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 aimed	obl
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 stood	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stood	nsubj
40	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 aimed	advcl
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 window	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 window	det
43	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stood	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	recover	past	the woman	woman's senses		soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	woman		senses = sens		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	pass	past · perfect · passive	the place with men's bows and arrows	two young men			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory
4	have	past	one of arrows				tree rules
5	aim	participle	one of arrows not said here			at woman; deliberately property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	stand	past	woman			by the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location

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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