Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 109

Then said the crab to himself, "If this fellow once got hold of fish, he would never let them go in a pond!

Who acts: fellow, fish · What happens: say, get, not let, go, hold · To what, where: crab, hold, fish, pond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, fish), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crab	det
4	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 got	mark
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 fellow	det
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	nsubj
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 fellow	advmod
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
14	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 fish	case
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 let	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 let	advmod
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 pond	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pond	det
26	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: express	past		the crab	crab		then	tree rules
2	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	this fellow	hold of fish				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	not let in a quote	would	fellow	fish				tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	fish not said here			a pond		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pond=Location
5	hold in a quote			fish				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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