Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 66

He found them crying by the ruins of their mother's grave.

Who acts: thing, daughters · What happens: find, cry, ruin · To what, where: daughters, grave

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 (thing, daughters), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 found	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 ruins	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ruins	det
7	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crying	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 grave	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grave	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 mother	case
12	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruins	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	thing	daughters = daughter		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme
2	cry speech: express	gerund	daughters = daughter not said here		by the ruins of daughters's mother's grave	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ruin=Location
3	ruin			daughters's mother's grave		nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient

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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