Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 41

Previously they vied with one another in trying to please their father, hoping thus to receive more money, but now they had received their patrimony, they cared not how soon he left them--nay, the sooner the better, because he was only a needless trouble and expense.

Who acts: ingrates, son · What happens: vie, try, please, hope, receive, not care · To what, where: one, father, more money, patrimony, ingrates, needless trouble

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 (ingrates, son), 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	Previously	previously	ADV	_	3 vied	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vied	nsubj
3	vied	vie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 vied	obj
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	fixed
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 trying	mark
8	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 vied	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 please	mark
10	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 trying	xcomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 please	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hoping	punct
14	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 vied	advcl
15	thus	thus	ADV	_	14 hoping	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 receive	mark
17	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hoping	xcomp
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 money	amod
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 receive	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 received	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 received	cc
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 received	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 received	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 received	aux
25	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 vied	parataxis
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 patrimony	nmod:poss
27	patrimony	patrimony	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 received	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cared	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cared	nsubj
30	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vied	parataxis
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 cared	advmod
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 soon	advmod
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 left	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 left	nsubj
35	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 cared	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 left	obj
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 better	punct
38	nay	nay	INTJ	_	43 better	discourse
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 nay	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sooner	det
41	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 better	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 better	det
43	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 left	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 trouble	punct
45	because	because	SCONJ	_	51 trouble	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 trouble	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 trouble	cop
48	only	only	ADV	_	51 trouble	advmod
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 trouble	det
50	needless	needless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 trouble	amod
51	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 left	advcl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 expense	cc
53	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 trouble	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 vied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	vie	past	ingrates = ingrate	one		previously property	tree rules
2	try	gerund	ingrates = ingrate not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	please not said to happen	to-infinitive	ingrates = ingrate not said here	ingrates's father			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer
4	hope	gerund	ingrates = ingrate not said here			thus property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	receive not said to happen	to-infinitive	ingrates = ingrate not said here	more money			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	receive	past · perfect	ingrates = ingrate	ingrates's patrimony	now		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patrimony=Theme
7	not care	past	ingrates = ingrate				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	leave	past	son	ingrates = ingrate		soon property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	is a	past	son	a needless trouble and expense			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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