Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 76

So he laid the two sweetmeats on the ground, and he took out another, and another, and another, until he had taken them all out; but in each he found an ant. "

Who acts: prince · What happens: lay, take out, find · To what, where: two sweetmeats, ground, another, sweetmeats, ant, each

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	So	so	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sweetmeats	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sweetmeats	nummod
6	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 took	compound:prt
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 took	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 another	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 another	cc
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 took	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 another	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 another	cc
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 laid	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taken	punct
23	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 taken	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taken	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taken	aux
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 laid	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taken	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 them	nmod:unmarked
29	out	out	ADV	_	26 taken	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 found	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 found	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 each	case
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 found	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 found	nsubj
35	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 ant	det
37	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 found	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	prince	the two sweetmeats	the ground		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sweetmeat=Theme on ground=Destination
2	take out	past	prince	another			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme
3	take out	past · perfect	prince	sweetmeats = sweetmeat		out property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	find	past	prince	a ant	each		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Topic

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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