Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 56

He said in his own mind, "I will catch her to-day, and give her a sound beating; she is causing me to be ashamed before the others."

Who acts: man, friend · What happens: say, catch, give, cause, asham, mind · To what, where: own mind, friend, sound beating, man · 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 (man, friend), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 mind	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mind	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mind	amod
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 catch	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 catch	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 catch	aux
11	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 catch	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 catch	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
18	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 catch	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 beating	det
21	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beating	compound
22	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 causing	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 causing	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 causing	aux
26	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 causing	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 ashamed	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 ashamed	aux:pass
30	ashamed	asham	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 causing	advcl
31	before	before	ADP	_	33 others	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 others	det
33	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ashamed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 causing	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 causing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man			man's own mind		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	catch in a quote	future	man	friend			day	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	give in a quote	infinitive	man not said here	a sound beating	friend			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient beating=Theme
4	cause in a quote	present · progressive	friend		man			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition i=Patient
5	asham in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	friend not said here				before the others	tree rules
6	mind		man					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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