Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 16

Ever since their mother's death they had cooked his dinner with their own hands, in order to avoid the danger of his being poisoned by his enemies.

Who acts: enemies, mother · What happens: cook, avoid, poison, die · To what, where: daughters, danger, Prudhan

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 (enemies, mother), 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	Ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 cooked	advmod
2	since	since	ADP	_	6 death	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 death	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mother	case
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cooked	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cooked	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cooked	aux
9	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dinner	nmod:poss
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cooked	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 hands	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hands	amod
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cooked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 avoid	punct
17	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 avoid	mark
18	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 in	fixed
19	to	to	PART	_	20 avoid	mark
20	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cooked	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 danger	det
22	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 avoid	obj
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 poisoned	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 poisoned	nsubj:pass
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 poisoned	aux:pass
26	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 danger	acl:relcl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 enemies	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 enemies	nmod:poss
29	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 poisoned	obl:agent
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cooked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past · perfect · passive		daughters = daughter	since daughters's mother's death; ever	with daughters's own hands	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary dinner=Product
2	avoid	to-infinitive		the danger			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent danger=Location
3	poison	gerund · passive	Prudhan's enemies	Prudhan			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	die		daughters's mother				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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