Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 5

The Raja's wife died when they were quite little children, so these seven poor Princesses were left with no mother to take care of them.

Who acts: wife, daughters, these · What happens: die, be, princess, leave, take · To what, where: little children, seven poor Princesses, care

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 (wife, daughters, these), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Raja	det
2	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Raja	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 children	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 children	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 children	cop
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 children	amod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 left	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	19 left	advmod
14	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 Princesses	nsubj
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 Princesses	nummod
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Princesses	amod
17	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 left	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 left	aux:pass
19	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 died	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 mother	case
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 mother	det
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 left	advcl
25	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 take	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	the Raja's wife			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	past	daughters = daughter	little children		tree rules
3	princess		these			tree rules
4	leave	past · passive		seven poor Princesses	with no mother	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with mother=Theme
5	take	to-infinitive		care	of daughters = daughter	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of they=Initial_Location

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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