Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 6

The Raja's daughters took it by turns to cook their father's dinner every day, whilst he was absent deliberating with his Ministers on the affairs of the nation.

Who acts: daughters, youngest · What happens: take, cook, deliberate · To what, where: Raja, dinner

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 (daughters, youngest), 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 daughters	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Raja	case
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 turns	case
8	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cook	mark
10	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 took	advcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dinner	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 father	case
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cook	obj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cook	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 deliberating	punct
18	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	22 deliberating	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 deliberating	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 deliberating	aux
21	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 deliberating	amod
22	deliberating	deliberate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cook	advcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 Ministers	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 Ministers	nmod:poss
25	Ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 deliberating	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 affairs	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 affairs	det
28	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 deliberating	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 nation	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 nation	det
31	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 affairs	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Raja's daughters	Raja		by turns	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	cook	to-infinitive	the Raja's daughters not said here	daughters's father's dinner	day		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
3	deliberate	past · progressive	youngest = young			with youngest's Ministers; on the affairs of the nation	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with minister=Co-Agent on affair=Topic

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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