Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 36

Now Gulizar had obtained a charmed swing, that landed whoever sat on it at the place wherever they wished to be. "

Who acts: charmed swing, whoever, elephants · What happens: obtain, charm, land, sit, wish, be · To what, where: Gulizar, swing

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 (charmed swing, whoever, elephants), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 obtained	advmod
2	Gulizar	Gulizar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 obtained	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obtained	aux
4	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 swing	det
6	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 swing	amod
7	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obtained	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 landed	punct
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 landed	nsubj
10	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swing	acl:relcl
11	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 landed	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 place	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 place	det
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
18	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	20 wished	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wished	nsubj
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 be	mark
22	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wished	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obtained	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 obtained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	past · perfect · passive		Gulizar		now		tree rules
2	charm	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	land	past	a charmed swing					tree rules
4	sit	past	whoever		swing		at the place	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
5	wish	past	elephants = elephant				wherever property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	be not said to happen	to-infinitive	elephants = elephant not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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