Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 29

She gave them nothing but bread to eat, and very little of that, and very little water to drink; so these seven poor little Princesses, who had been accustomed to have everything comfortable about them, and good food and good clothes all their lives long, were very miserable and unhappy; and they used to go out every day and sit by their dead mother's tomb and cry--and say:

Who acts: Ranee, these, good food, daughters · What happens: give, eat, drink, princess, accustom, have · To what, where: nothing, daughters, seven poor little Princesses, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ranee, these, good food, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 gave	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 bread	cc
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 little	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 little	cc
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 little	advmod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 little	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 water	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 water	cc
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 little	advmod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 drink	mark
21	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 water	acl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 Princesses	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	28 Princesses	advmod
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 Princesses	nsubj
25	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 Princesses	nummod
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Princesses	amod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Princesses	amod
28	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 accustomed	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 accustomed	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 accustomed	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 accustomed	aux:pass
33	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 Princesses	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 have	mark
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 accustomed	xcomp
36	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	35 have	obj
37	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 have	xcomp
38	about	about	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 comfortable	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 miserable	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 miserable	cc
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 food	amod
43	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 miserable	nsubj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 clothes	cc
45	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 clothes	amod
46	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	43 food	conj
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 lives	det:predet
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 lives	nmod:poss
49	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 long	obl:unmarked
50	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 food	amod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 food	punct
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 miserable	cop
53	very	very	ADV	_	54 miserable	advmod
54	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	conj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 unhappy	cc
56	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 miserable	conj
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 used	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 used	cc
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 used	nsubj
60	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
61	to	to	PART	_	62 go	mark
62	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 used	xcomp
63	out	out	ADV	_	62 go	advmod
64	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	65 day	det
65	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 go	obl:unmarked
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 sit	cc
67	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 used	conj
68	by	by	ADP	_	73 tomb	case
69	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 mother	nmod:poss
70	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 mother	amod
71	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 tomb	nmod:poss
72	's	's	PART	_	71 mother	case
73	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 sit	obl
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 cry	cc
75	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	67 sit	conj
76	--	--	PUNCT	_	78 say	punct
77	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 say	cc
78	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	conj
79	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Ranee	nothing	daughters = daughter			tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	Ranee not said here	nothing not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	to-infinitive	Ranee not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	princess		these					tree rules
5	accustom	past · perfect · passive		seven poor little Princesses				tree rules
6	have	to-infinitive		everything			comfortable property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
7	is	past	good food and good clothes				miserable property	tree rules
8	be		good food and good clothes not said here					tree rules
9	use	past	daughters = daughter					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	go out	to-infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here			day	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	sit	present	daughters = daughter not said here				by daughters's dead mother's tomb	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tomb=Location
12	cry speech: express	infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	say speech: assert	infinitive	Ranee not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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