Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 50

Two days of the dark fortnight had elapsed, when the prince and the vizier's son seated themselves in the swing, and wished themselves within the grounds of the palace.

Who acts: prince · What happens: elapse, seat, wish · To what, where: Two days, things, 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 (prince), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 elapsed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 fortnight	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fortnight	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fortnight	amod
6	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	nmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 elapsed	aux
8	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seated	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 seated	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seated	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 son	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 vizier	det
15	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 son	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 vizier	case
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prince	conj
18	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 elapsed	advcl
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 seated	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 swing	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 swing	det
22	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seated	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wished	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wished	cc
25	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 elapsed	conj
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 wished	obj
27	within	within	ADP	_	29 grounds	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 grounds	det
29	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 wished	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 palace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grounds	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 elapsed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	elapse	past · perfect · passive		Two days of the dark fortnight			tree rules
2	seat	past	the prince and the vizier's son	things = thing	the swing		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Value in swing=Location
3	wish	past		things = thing		within the grounds of the palace	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=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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