Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 35

So next day, when the Princesses went to their mother's grave, and were eating the beautiful pomeloes, the Prudhan's daughter followed them, and saw them gathering the fruit.

Who acts: Princesses, daughter · What happens: go, eat, follow, see, gather · To what, where: grave, beautiful pomeloes, Princesses, fruit

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 (Princesses, daughter), 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	_	8 went	advmod
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 went	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princesses	det
7	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 grave	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grave	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mother	case
13	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eating	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eating	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eating	aux
17	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 went	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pomeloes	det
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pomeloes	amod
20	pomeloes	pomeloe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eating	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 followed	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Prudhan	det
23	Prudhan	Prudhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 daughter	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Prudhan	case
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 followed	nsubj
26	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eating	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 followed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 saw	cc
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	obj
32	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 saw	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fruit	det
34	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gathering	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the Princesses		Princesses's mother's grave	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location
2	eat	past · progressive	the Princesses not said here	the beautiful pomeloes			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomeloe=Patient
3	follow	past	the Prudhan's daughter	Princesses = princess			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	see	past	the Princesses not said here	Princesses = princess			tree rules
5	gather	gerund	Princesses = princess not said here	the fruit			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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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