Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 132

Manikkasari was extremely delighted to find on his threshold him who ten years before, notwithstanding the advice repeatedly given him by the sage-looking tiger, serpent, and rat, had relieved him from the pit of death.

Who acts: Manikkasari, advice, rat · What happens: be, find, notwithstand, give, look, have · To what, where: threshold, advice, Manikkasari, pit

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manikkasari, advice, rat), 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	Manikkasari	Manikkasari	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
3	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	4 delighted	advmod
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 delighted	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 threshold	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 threshold	nmod:poss
9	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 before	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 before	nsubj
12	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 before	obl:unmarked
14	before	before	ADV	_	9 threshold	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 notwithstanding	punct
16	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 delighted	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 advice	det
18	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 notwithstanding	obj
19	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	_	20 given	advmod
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 advice	acl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 given	obj
22	by	by	ADP	_	27 tiger	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tiger	det
24	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looking	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 sage	punct
26	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 tiger	amod
27	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 serpent	punct
29	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tiger	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rat	cc
32	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 rat	acl:relcl
35	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 had	xcomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 relieved	nsubj
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 pit	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pit	det
39	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 death	case
41	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pit	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Manikkasari			delighted, extremely property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	Manikkasari not said here		Manikkasari's threshold		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	notwithstand	gerund	Manikkasari not said here	the advice			tree rules
4	give	participle	the advice not said here	Manikkasari		by the looking tiger and serpent; repeatedly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	have	past	rat not said here		the pit of death	relieved property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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