Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 125

The prince always kept his bag, bowl, bed, and stick; only, as no one ever came to make war on him, he never needed to use the stick.

Who acts: prince, one · What happens: keep, stick, come, make, not need, use · To what, where: bag, war, stick

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 (prince, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 kept	advmod
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bag	nmod:poss
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bowl	punct
8	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bag	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bed	punct
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bowl	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stick	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stick	cc
13	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
15	only	only	ADV	_	19 one	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 only	punct
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 came	advmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	xcomp
24	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 needed	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 needed	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 needed	advmod
30	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 use	mark
32	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 needed	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stick	det
34	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 use	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the prince	prince's bag and bowl and bed		always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
2	stick	infinitive	the prince not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	no one		ever		tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	no one not said here	war		on prince	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product
5	not need	past	prince				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here	the stick			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=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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