Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 14

Their mother (one of the most distant Stars you see far up in the sky) waited alone for her children's return.

Who acts: you, mother, children · What happens: see, wait, return · To what, where: distant Stars, sky

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother, children), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waited	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 mother	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 Stars	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Stars	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 distant	advmod
8	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Stars	amod
9	Stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Stars	acl:relcl
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 up	advmod
13	up	up	ADV	_	11 see	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sky	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sky	det
16	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obl
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
18	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	alone	alone	ADV	_	18 waited	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 return	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 children	nmod:poss
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 return	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 children	case
24	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waited	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	you	the distant Stars not said here	the sky		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus
2	wait	past	Sun's mother			for mother's children's return; alone property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	return		mother's children				nom return «communication 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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