Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 18

On their return, their mother, who had kept watch for them all night long with her little bright eye, said, "Well, children, what have you brought home for me?"

Who acts: Sun · What happens: keep, say, bring, return · To what, where: mother, return, children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sun), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 return	nmod:poss
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 return	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 kept	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	aux
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mother	acl:relcl
11	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 watch	nmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 long	obl:unmarked
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 kept	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 eye	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eye	nmod:poss
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eye	amod
20	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eye	amod
21	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 children	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 children	punct
26	Well	well	INTJ	_	28 children	discourse
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Well	punct
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 brought	punct
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 brought	nsubj:pass
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 brought	aux
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 brought	nsubj
33	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 children	acl:relcl
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 brought	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 brought	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 children	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past · perfect · passive		Sun's mother		with mother's little bright eye; long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past			Sun's return		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		children		for me; home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
4	return		Sun				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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