Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 7

About this time the Prudhan died, leaving a widow and one daughter; and every day, every day, when the seven Princesses were preparing their father's dinner, the Prudhan's widow and daughter would come and beg for a little fire from the hearth.

Who acts: Prudhan, seven Princesses, widow · What happens: die, leave, prepare, come, beg · To what, where: widow, dinner, hearth

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 (Prudhan, seven Princesses, widow), 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	About	about	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prudhan	det
5	Prudhan	Prudhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leaving	punct
8	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 died	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 widow	det
10	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaving	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 daughter	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 daughter	nummod
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 widow	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 day	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 day	cc
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 come	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 preparing	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 preparing	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Princesses	det
24	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 Princesses	nummod
25	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 preparing	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 preparing	aux
27	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 day	advcl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dinner	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 father	case
31	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 preparing	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 widow	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Prudhan	det
34	Prudhan	Prudhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 widow	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Prudhan	case
36	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 come	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 daughter	cc
38	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 widow	conj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 come	aux
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 died	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 beg	cc
42	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 come	conj
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 fire	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 fire	det
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 fire	amod
46	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 beg	obl
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 hearth	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 hearth	det
49	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 beg	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the Prudhan			time		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	leave	gerund	the Prudhan not said here	a widow and one daughter				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Theme
3	prepare	past · progressive	the seven Princesses	daughters's father's dinner				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
4	come	would	the Prudhan's widow and daughter			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	beg speech: request	infinitive	the Prudhan's widow and daughter not said here		the hearth		for a little fire	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for fire=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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