Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 69

He then shot a deer, and returning home, put some of its blood on the forehead and hands of the Ranee, and she thought then that he had really killed the Princesses, and said she felt quite well.

Who acts: thing, Ranee · What happens: shoot, return, put, think, kill, say · To what, where: deer, some, forehead, thing · 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 (thing, Ranee), 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	3 shot	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 shot	advmod
3	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deer	det
5	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shot	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
8	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 put	advcl
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 returning	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 returning	punct
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shot	conj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 put	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 blood	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 blood	nmod:poss
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 some	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 forehead	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forehead	det
18	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hands	cc
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 forehead	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Ranee	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Ranee	det
23	Ranee	Ranee	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hands	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thought	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shot	conj
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 thought	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 killed	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 killed	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 killed	aux
32	really	really	ADV	_	33 killed	advmod
33	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 thought	ccomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Princesses	det
35	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 killed	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shot	conj
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 felt	nsubj
40	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 said	ccomp
41	quite	quite	ADV	_	42 well	advmod
42	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 felt	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	thing	a deer		then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
2	return	gerund					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	infinitive	thing not said here	some	the forehead and hands of the Ranee			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme on forehead=Destination
4	think speech: other	past	Ranee			then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	kill	past · perfect · passive		thing				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer princess=Result
6	say speech: assert	past	thing not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	feel	past	Ranee				well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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