Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 114

While they were away looking for the fourth arrow the Raja's son let his horse loose in the jungle, and sat on the bed, taking the bowl, the stick and rope, and the bag with him.

Who acts: fakirs, son · What happens: look, let, sit, take · To what, where: horse, jungle, bed, bowl

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, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 looking	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looking	aux
4	away	away	ADV	_	5 looking	advmod
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 let	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 arrow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 arrow	det
8	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 arrow	amod
9	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Raja	det
11	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 son	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Raja	case
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	nsubj
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 horse	nmod:poss
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obj
17	loose	loose	ADV	_	14 let	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 jungle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jungle	det
20	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 let	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 bed	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bed	det
26	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 taking	punct
28	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sat	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bowl	det
30	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taking	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stick	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stick	det
33	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bowl	appos
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rope	cc
35	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stick	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bag	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bag	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bag	det
39	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obl
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bag	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	fakirs = fakir			away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	let	past	the Raja's son	son's horse	the jungle	for the fourth arrow; the bag with rope obl; loose property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for arrow=Asset
3	sit	past	the Raja's son not said here		the bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
4	take	gerund	the Raja's son not said here	the bowl			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=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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