Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 23

"Then," said the king, when the merchant brought back this reply, "to-morrow I will cause all the male inhabitants of this city to pass before your house, and your wife will stand at the window and watch for the man who did this wanton deed."

Who acts: king, merchant, wife, man · What happens: say, bring back, cause, pass, stand, watch · To what, where: reply, male inhabitants, house, window, wanton deed · 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 (king, merchant, wife, man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 brought	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchant	det
11	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	nsubj
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 brought	advmod
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 reply	det
15	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cause	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 cause	punct
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 morrow	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 to	punct
20	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cause	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 cause	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 cause	aux
23	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 brought	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 inhabitants	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 inhabitants	det
26	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 inhabitants	amod
27	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cause	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 city	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 city	det
30	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 inhabitants	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 pass	mark
32	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 inhabitants	acl
33	before	before	ADP	_	35 house	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 house	nmod:poss
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pass	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stand	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 stand	cc
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wife	nmod:poss
39	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stand	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 stand	aux
41	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
42	at	at	ADP	_	44 window	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 window	det
44	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stand	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 watch	cc
46	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 stand	conj
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 man	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 man	det
49	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 watch	obl
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 did	nsubj
51	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 man	acl:relcl
52	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 deed	det
53	wanton	wanton	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 deed	compound
54	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 did	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring back	past	the merchant	this reply				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent reply=Theme
3	cause in a quote	future	the king = king	all male inhabitants of this city			to morrow	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition inhabitant=Patient
4	pass in a quote	to-infinitive	the king = king not said here	all male inhabitants of this city not said here	your house			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before house=Location
5	stand in a quote	future	your wife		the window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
6	watch in a quote	infinitive	your wife not said here				for the man	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for man=Theme
7	do in a quote	past	the man	this wanton deed				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality

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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