Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 63

So they had to let him go, though they cried very much at parting with him.

Who acts: birds, prince · What happens: have, let, go, cry, part · To what, where: prince

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 (birds, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 cried	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	11 cried	advmod
14	at	at	SCONJ	_	15 parting	mark
15	parting	part	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 parting	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	birds = bird			tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here	prince		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	prince not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	birds = bird			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	part	gerund	birds = bird not said here		with prince	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with he=Co-Patient

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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