Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 52

At seeing this all the Princesses were very glad, and they ate some of the cake, and liked it; and next day the same thing happened, and so it went on for many days.

Who acts: Princesses, same thing, cake · What happens: see, be, eat, like, happen, go on · To what, where: this, some, cake

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, same thing, cake), 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	At	at	SCONJ	_	2 seeing	mark
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 glad	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 seeing	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 Princesses	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princesses	det
6	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 glad	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 glad	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 glad	advmod
9	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ate	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ate	nsubj
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 glad	conj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 ate	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 cake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cake	det
17	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 some	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 liked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 liked	cc
20	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ate	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 liked	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 happened	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 happened	cc
24	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 day	amod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 happened	obl:unmarked
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 thing	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thing	amod
28	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 happened	nsubj
29	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 glad	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 went	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 happened	conj
35	on	on	ADV	_	34 went	advmod
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 days	case
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 days	amod
38	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 went	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	all Princesses not said here	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is	past	all Princesses			glad property	tree rules
3	eat	past	Princesses = princess	some			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	like	past	Princesses = princess not said here	cake			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	happen	past	the same thing		day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go on	past	cake		day		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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