Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 113

When they brought it back to him he shot off the second, and when they had found and brought it to him he shot off his third, and when they had brought him the third he shot off the fourth.

Who acts: fakirs, prince · What happens: bring back, shoot off, find, bring · To what, where: bye, prince, second, third, fakirs, fourth

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fakirs, prince), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 brought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shot	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shot	nsubj
9	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 second	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 second	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 shot	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 found	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	aux
18	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 shot	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brought	cc
20	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brought	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brought	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 shot	nsubj
25	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 brought	parataxis
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 shot	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 third	nmod:poss
28	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shot	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 brought	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 brought	cc
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 brought	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 brought	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 brought	aux
34	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 shot	parataxis
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 brought	obj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 third	det
37	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brought	obj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 shot	nsubj
39	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 third	acl:relcl
40	off	off	ADP	_	42 fourth	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fourth	det
42	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 shot	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	bring back	past	fakirs = fakir	bye	prince	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination
2	shoot off	past	prince	the second		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent second=Theme
3	find	past · perfect	fakirs = fakir			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	bring	past	fakirs = fakir not said here	bye	prince	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination
5	shoot off	past	prince	prince's third		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme
6	bring	past · perfect · passive		fakirs = fakir		tree rules
7	shoot off	past	prince	the fourth		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourth=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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