Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 38

When it was brought she bade the old woman step into it and desire to be at home.

Who acts: Gulizar · What happens: bring, bade, desire, be · To what, where: swing, old woman step, home

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 (Gulizar), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 brought	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	aux:pass
4	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bade	parataxis
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bade	nsubj
6	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 step	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 step	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 step	compound
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bade	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bade	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 desire	cc
14	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bade	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	18 home	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 home	cop
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 home	case
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 desire	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		swing		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
2	bade	past	Gulizar	the old woman step	swing	tree rules
3	desire	infinitive	Gulizar not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gulizar not said here		home	tree rules

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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