Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 93

Punchkin Fakir wandered through the palace, and saw many beautiful things there, till at last he reached the room where Balna sat singing beside her little boy's cradle.

Who acts: Punchkin, Balna · What happens: wander, see, reach, sit, sing · To what, where: palace, many beautiful things, room, last, cradle

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 (Punchkin, Balna), 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	Punchkin	Punchkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wandered	nsubj
2	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Punchkin	flat
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wandered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	parataxis
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	obj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 saw	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reached	punct
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 reached	mark
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reached	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reached	nsubj
19	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 room	det
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reached	obj
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 sat	advmod
23	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 room	acl:relcl
25	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sat	advcl
26	beside	beside	ADP	_	31 cradle	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 boy	nmod:poss
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 boy	amod
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cradle	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 boy	case
31	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 singing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wander	past	Punchkin		the palace	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through palace=Trajectory
2	see	past		many beautiful things	there	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	reach	past	Punchkin	the room	last	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent room=Theme at last=Asset
4	sit	past	Balna			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sing speech: express	gerund	Balna not said here		Balna's little boy's cradle	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside cradle=Location

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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