Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 84

About a year after this Balna had a little son, and his uncles and aunts were so fond of the boy that it was as if he had seven fathers and seven mothers.

Who acts: Balna, uncles, marriage · What happens: have, be · To what, where: little son

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 (Balna, uncles, marriage), 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	ADV	_	3 year	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 year	nmod
6	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 son	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 son	amod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fond	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fond	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 uncles	nmod:poss
14	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fond	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 aunts	cc
16	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 uncles	conj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fond	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 fond	advmod
19	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 boy	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fond	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 had	cop
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fond	advcl
30	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 fathers	nummod
31	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mothers	cc
33	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 mothers	nummod
34	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fathers	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Balna	a little son	year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	is	past	Prince's uncles and aunts			of the boy; fond property	tree rules
3	is	past	marriage			have property	tree rules

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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