Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 57

Next day, while the Princesses were eating the cream cake, who should come by but their step-mother's daughter.

Who acts: Princesses, cream cake · What happens: eat, come · To what, where: cream 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, cream 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eating	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 eating	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princesses	det
6	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 eating	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eating	aux
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cake	det
10	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cake	compound
11	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 come	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cake	acl:relcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	23 daughter	case
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 daughter	cc
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
19	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 step	punct
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 daughter	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 mother	case
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	the Princesses	the cream cake					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
2	come	should	the cream cake					by Princesses's step mother's daughter	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by daughter=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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