Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 110

"_Our_ dinner!" thought the wretched Brahman, as his knees knocked together with fright; "what a remarkably delicate way of putting it!"

Who acts: dinner, knees, delicate way · What happens: think, knock together, put · To what, where: wretched Brahman, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner, knees, delicate way), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
3	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dinner	nmod:poss
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 dinner	punct
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 dinner	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dinner	punct
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Brahman	det
10	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Brahman	amod
11	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thought	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knocked	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 knocked	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 knees	nmod:poss
15	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 knocked	nsubj
16	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	conj
17	together	together	ADV	_	16 knocked	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 fright	case
19	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knocked	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 thought	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 way	det
24	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	25 delicate	advmod
25	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 what	nsubj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 putting	mark
28	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 way	acl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 putting	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Our dinner	the wretched Brahman		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot brahman=Theme
2	knock together	past	dinner's knees		with fright; together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fright=Theme
3	put in a quote	gerund	a delicate way not said here	way		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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