Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 28

It fell with a clang on the floor, and Balna, looking to see what made the strange sound, found the little ring tied to the flowers.

Who acts: opportunity, Balna · What happens: fall, look, see, make, find, tie · To what, where: floor, strange sound, little ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opportunity, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 clang	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 clang	det
5	clang	clang	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looking	cc
11	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 looking	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Balna	punct
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fell	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 looking	xcomp
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 see	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sound	det
19	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sound	amod
20	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ring	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ring	amod
25	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
26	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 ring	acl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 flowers	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 flowers	det
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tied	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	opportunity		the floor	with a clang	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
2	look	gerund	Balna				tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	Balna not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make	past		the strange sound			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sound=Product
5	find	past	opportunity not said here	the little ring			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
6	tie	participle		the little ring not said here		to the flowers	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to flower=Co-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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