Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 54

Then the cruel step-mother said to her daughter: "I cannot tell how it is, I have had the pomelo tree which used to grow by the Ranee's grave destroyed, and yet the Princesses grow no thinner, nor look more sad, though they never eat the dinner I give them.

Who acts: cruel step mother, cake, pomelo tree, Princesses · What happens: say, not tell, be, have, use, grow · To what, where: daughter, pomelo tree, thinner, dinner, Princesses · 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 (cruel step mother, cake, pomelo tree, Princesses), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 step	punct
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 daughter	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 tell	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 how	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 how	cop
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 had	aux
23	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 tell	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
25	pomelo	pomelo	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tree	compound
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 used	nsubj
28	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tree	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 grow	mark
30	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	xcomp
31	by	by	ADP	_	35 grave	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Ranee	det
33	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 grave	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Ranee	case
35	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grow	obl
36	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 grow	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 grow	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 grow	cc
39	yet	yet	ADV	_	42 grow	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Princesses	det
41	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 grow	nsubj
42	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	conj
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 thinner	det
44	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 grow	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 look	punct
46	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	47 look	cc
47	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	conj
48	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	49 sad	advmod
49	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 look	xcomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 eat	punct
51	though	though	SCONJ	_	54 eat	mark
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 eat	nsubj
53	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	54 eat	advmod
54	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	parataxis
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 dinner	det
56	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 eat	obj
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 give	nsubj
58	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 eat	conj
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 give	iobj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cruel step mother		mother's daughter	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the cruel step mother = mother					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	cake				how property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	present · perfect	the cruel step mother = mother	the pomelo tree				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
5	use in a quote	past	the pomelo tree					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	grow in a quote	to-infinitive	the pomelo tree not said here				by the Ranee's grave	tree rules
7	destroy in a quote	participle	the pomelo tree not said here					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	grow in a quote	present	the Princesses	no thinner		yet		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thin=Theme
9	look in a quote	infinitive	the cruel step mother = mother not said here				sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	not eat in a quote	present	Princesses = princess	the dinner				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
11	give in a quote	present	the cruel step mother = mother		Princesses = princess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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