Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 19

There he saw his seven daughters carefully washing the rice and preparing the curry, and as each dish was completed, they put it by the fire ready to be cooked.

Who acts: Prudhan, seven daughters, daughters · What happens: see, wash, prepare, complete, put, cook · To what, where: seven daughters, rice, curry, dish

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 (Prudhan, seven daughters, daughters), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 saw	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughters	nmod:poss
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 daughters	nummod
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
8	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 saw	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rice	det
10	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washing	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 preparing	cc
12	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 washing	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 curry	det
14	curry	curry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 preparing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 completed	mark
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 dish	det
19	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 completed	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 completed	aux:pass
21	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 put	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 completed	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 fire	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fire	det
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fire	amod
30	to	to	PART	_	32 cooked	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 cooked	aux:pass
32	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 ready	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Prudhan	Prudhan's seven daughters	there	carefully property	tree rules
2	wash	gerund	Prudhan's seven daughters not said here	the rice			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
3	prepare	gerund	Prudhan's seven daughters not said here	the curry			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curry=Patient
4	complete	past · passive		each dish			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	put	past	daughters = daughter	curry		by the fire	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by fire=Destination
6	cook	to-infinitive · passive	daughters = daughter not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»

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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