Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 1

Next morning all the princess's servants found the betel-leaf, and began to eat it. "

Who acts: servants · What happens: find, begin, eat · To what, where: betel leaf, leaf

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl:unmarked
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 servants	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 servants	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 princess	case
7	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 leaf	det
10	betel	betel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaf	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 betel	punct
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	find	past	the princess's servants	the betel leaf	morning	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Topic
2	begin	past	the princess's servants not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	eat	to-infinitive	the princess's servants not said here	leaf		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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