Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 14

Then the Prudhan's widow used to go to the hearth and take a few sticks from it; and whilst no one was looking, she would quickly throw some mud into the midst of the dishes which were being prepared for the Raja's dinner.

Who acts: widow, one, Balna · What happens: use, go, take, look, throw, prepare · To what, where: hearth, few sticks, mud, midst, dishes

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, one, Balna), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 used	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prudhan	det
3	Prudhan	Prudhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 widow	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Prudhan	case
5	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hearth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hearth	det
11	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 take	cc
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sticks	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sticks	amod
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 take	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 throw	cc
21	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	25 looking	mark
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looking	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 looking	aux
25	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 throw	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looking	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 throw	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 throw	aux
29	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	30 throw	advmod
30	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	conj
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 mud	det
32	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 midst	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 midst	det
35	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 dishes	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dishes	det
38	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 midst	nmod
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 prepared	nsubj:pass
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 prepared	aux:pass
41	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 prepared	aux:pass
42	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 dishes	acl:relcl
43	for	for	ADP	_	47 dinner	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Raja	det
45	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 dinner	nmod:poss
46	's	's	PART	_	45 Raja	case
47	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 prepared	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	the Prudhan's widow			then		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go	to-infinitive	the Prudhan's widow not said here		the hearth			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hearth=Initial_Location
3	take	infinitive	the Prudhan's widow not said here	a few sticks	hearth			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stick=Theme from it=Initial_Location
4	look	past · progressive	no one					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	throw	would	Balna	some mud			into the midst of the dishes result; quickly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer mud=Theme into midst=Result
6	prepare	past · passive		the dishes			for the Raja's dinner	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for dinner=Beneficiary

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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