Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 18

"Because, my dear," the old woman answered, "two young travellers, a prince and the son of some great vizier, have taken up their abode in my hut, and demand so much of my attention.

Who acts: old woman, my · What happens: answer, take up, attend · To what, where: two young travellers, abode, hut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, my), 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	_	11 answered	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 dear	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dear	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dear	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answered	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dear	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
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 answered	nsubj
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 travellers	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 travellers	punct
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 travellers	nummod
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 travellers	amod
16	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 answered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prince	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 prince	det
19	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 travellers	appos
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 son	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prince	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 vizier	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 vizier	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 vizier	amod
26	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taken	punct
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 taken	aux
29	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 answered	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 taken	compound:prt
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 abode	nmod:poss
32	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taken	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 hut	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hut	nmod:poss
35	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taken	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 demand	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 demand	cc
38	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taken	obl
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 demand	amod
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 attention	case
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 attention	nmod:poss
43	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 much	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the old woman	two young travellers			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent traveller=Eventuality
2	take up in a quote	present · perfect	the old woman not said here	travellers's abode	my hut	demand obl	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent abode=Value in hut=Location
3	attend in a quote		my				nom attention «cognition 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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