Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 146

So his Granny said he was a good boy, and put him into the corn-bin, and there the greedy little Lambikin stayed for seven days, and ate, and ate, and ate, until he could scarcely waddle, and his Granny said he was fat enough for anything, and must go home.

Who acts: Granny, Lambikin, greedy little Lambikin · What happens: say, be, put, stay, eat, waddle · To what, where: good boy, Lambikin, corn bin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Granny, Lambikin, greedy little Lambikin), 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	_	4 said	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Granny	nmod:poss
3	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 boy	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 boy	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	18 bin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bin	det
16	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bin	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 corn	punct
18	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stayed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stayed	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 stayed	expl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Lambikin	det
23	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Lambikin	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Lambikin	amod
25	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 stayed	nsubj
26	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 days	case
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 days	nummod
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stayed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ate	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ate	cc
32	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stayed	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ate	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ate	cc
35	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ate	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ate	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ate	cc
38	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 waddle	punct
40	until	until	SCONJ	_	44 waddle	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 waddle	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 waddle	aux
43	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	44 waddle	advmod
44	waddle	waddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 ate	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 said	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 said	cc
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 Granny	nmod:poss
48	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 said	nsubj
49	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 fat	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 fat	cop
52	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 said	ccomp
53	enough	enough	ADV	_	52 fat	advmod
54	for	for	ADP	_	55 anything	case
55	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	49 said	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 go	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 go	cc
58	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 go	aux
59	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 said	conj
60	home	home	ADV	_	59 go	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Lambikin's Granny						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Lambikin	a good boy					tree rules
3	put	infinitive	Lambikin's Granny not said here		Lambikin	the corn bin			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
4	stay	past	the greedy little Lambikin			there	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	past							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	eat	past							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	eat	past							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	waddle	could	Lambikin					scarcely property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	say speech: assert	past	Lambikin's Granny					for anything	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	is	past	Lambikin					enough, fat property	tree rules
11	go	must	Lambikin's Granny not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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