Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 56

Once upon a time the Bodhisatta was a Pigeon, and lived in a nest-basket which a rich man's cook had hung up in the kitchen, in order to earn merit by it.

Who acts: Bodhisatta · What happens: be, live, hang up, earn · To what, where: Pigeon, nest basket, cook, kitchen, merit

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 (Bodhisatta), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bodhisatta	det
6	Bodhisatta	Bodhisatta	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Pigeon	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Pigeon	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Pigeon	det
9	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 time	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lived	cc
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 basket	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 basket	det
15	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 basket	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 nest	punct
17	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hung	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cook	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 man	case
23	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hung	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hung	aux
25	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 basket	acl:relcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 hung	compound:prt
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 kitchen	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 kitchen	det
29	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hung	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 earn	punct
31	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 earn	mark
32	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 in	fixed
33	to	to	PART	_	34 earn	mark
34	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 lived	parataxis
35	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 earn	obj
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 earn	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Bodhisatta	a Pigeon			tree rules
2	live	past			a nest basket	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in basket=Location
3	hang up	past · perfect · passive		a rich man's cook	the kitchen		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient which=Result
4	earn	to-infinitive		merit		by cook	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=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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