Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 89

Then they trusted him, and handed over to him one of their number--a big fellow, blind of one eye, whom they thought sharp enough in any emergency, afloat or ashore.

Who acts: _ · What happens: trust, hand over, think · To what, where: Crane, one, big fellow, emergency

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 (_), 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	3 trusted	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trusted	nsubj
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trusted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 handed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 handed	cc
7	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 trusted	conj
8	over	over	ADP	_	7 handed	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 handed	obl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 handed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 number	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 number	nmod:poss
14	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 fellow	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fellow	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fellow	amod
18	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handed	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 blind	punct
20	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fellow	amod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 eye	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 eye	nummod
23	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blind	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 thought	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fellow	acl
28	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thought	xcomp
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 sharp	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 emergency	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 emergency	det
32	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thought	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 afloat	punct
34	afloat	afloat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 emergency	amod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 ashore	cc
36	ashore	ashore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 afloat	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trusted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	past	_	Crane			then		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	hand over	participle	_ not said here	one of _'s number	Crane				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to he=Destination
3	think speech: other	past	_	a big fellow		any emergency		sharp property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme

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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