Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 74

So the seven Princes rode through the wood until they came to the place where the seven Princesses sat crying and wringing their hands.

Who acts: seven Princes, voices, seven Princesses · What happens: ride, come, sit, cry, wring · To what, where: wood, place, hands

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 (seven Princes, voices, seven Princesses), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 rode	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princes	det
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Princes	nummod
4	Princes	Prince	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 rode	nsubj
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rode	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 sat	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Princesses	det
17	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 Princesses	nummod
18	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 place	acl:relcl
20	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 sat	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wringing	cc
22	wringing	wring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 crying	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wringing	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ride	past	the seven Princes		the wood	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory
2	come	past	voices = voice		the place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	sit	past	the seven Princesses			tree rules
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the seven Princesses not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wring	gerund	the seven Princesses not said here	Princesses's hands		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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