Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 22

So thought he, and this thought gave him strength of mind to walk fast and try to find a drop of water somewhere to slake his dry throat.

Who acts: this · What happens: think, give, walk, try, find, slake · To what, where: DEATH, strength, drop, dry throat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (this), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 thought	advmod
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 gave	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 this	acl
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 mind	case
12	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strength	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 walk	mark
14	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gave	advcl
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 walk	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 try	cc
17	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 walk	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 try	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 drop	det
21	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drop	nmod
24	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 slake	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 slake	mark
26	slake	slake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 find	ccomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 throat	nmod:poss
28	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 throat	amod
29	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slake	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past		DEATH			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	think speech: other	past					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	this	strength of mind	DEATH		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient strength=Theme
4	walk	to-infinitive	this not said here			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	try	infinitive	this not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	this not said here	a drop of water			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent drop=Attribute clause=Theme
7	slake	to-infinitive		DEATH's dry throat		somewhere property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=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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