Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 154

This he laid near the princess's bed, and then his little bed carried him back to the old woman's house.

Who acts: This, little bed · What happens: lay, carry back · To what, where: bed, Raja, house

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 (This, little bed), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 laid	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	8 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bed	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 princess	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carried	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 carried	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bed	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bed	amod
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	nsubj
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 carried	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	23 house	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 house	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 woman	case
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	This			the princess's bed			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent near bed=Destination
2	carry back	past	Raja's little bed	Raja		the old woman's house	then		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination

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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