Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 49

When he got home, he would not speak or eat, but lay on his bed for four or five days, and seemed very ill.

Who acts: prince · What happens: get, not speak, eat, lie, seem · To what, where: bed · 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 (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 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 speak	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 speak	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 speak	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 speak	advmod
9	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 eat	cc
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 speak	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 lay	cc
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 speak	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 bed	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bed	nmod:poss
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	22 days	case
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 days	nummod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 five	cc
21	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 four	conj
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seemed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seemed	cc
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lay	advcl
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 ill	advmod
27	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seemed	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	prince			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not speak speech: other	would	prince				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	infinitive	prince not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lie	past	prince not said here	prince's bed	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
5	seem	past	prince not said here			ill property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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