Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 132

When they had finished eating, the old woman said, "Now I will fetch some water."

Who acts: Beasts, old woman · What happens: finish, eat, say, fetch · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Beasts, old woman), 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	4 finished	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 finished	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct
13	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 fetch	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 fetch	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fetch	aux
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fetch	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Beasts = beast			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	Beasts = beast not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fetch in a quote	future	the old woman = woman	some water	now	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/132/