Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 24

He thought he could collect some water if he let down his chombu with the string that he always carried noosed to the neck of it.

Who acts: DEATH · What happens: think, collect, let down, carry, noose · To what, where: water, chombu · 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 (DEATH), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 collect	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 collect	aux
5	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 collect	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 let	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	nsubj
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 let	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chombu	nmod:poss
13	chombu	chombu	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 string	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 string	det
16	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 carried	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carried	nsubj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 carried	advmod
20	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 let	advcl
21	noosed	noose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 carried	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 neck	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 neck	det
24	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 noosed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 neck	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	DEATH			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	collect	could	DEATH	some water		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	let down a condition, not said to happen	past	DEATH	DEATH's chombu	with the string	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chombu=Theme
4	carry	past	DEATH		always property	tree rules
5	noose	participle	DEATH not said here		to the neck of water	tree rules

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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