Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 87

The cook prepared all the dishes, and then stood at the kitchen door, wiping the sweat off his body. "

Who acts: cook · What happens: prepare, stand, wipe · To what, where: dishes, kitchen door, sweat, body

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 (cook), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prepared	nsubj
3	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dishes	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dishes	det
6	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prepared	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stood	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stood	advmod
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prepared	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 door	compound
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wiping	punct
16	wiping	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stood	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sweat	det
18	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wiping	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	21 body	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 body	nmod:poss
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wiping	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prepared	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	prepare	past	the cook	all dishes			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient
2	stand	past	the cook not said here		the kitchen door	then	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
3	wipe	gerund	the cook not said here	the sweat	purchase's body		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sweat=Theme off body=Trajectory

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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