Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 25

Accordingly he let it down; it went some way and stopped, and the following words came from the well: "Oh, relieve me!

Who acts: DEATH, water, following words · What happens: let down, go, stop, follow, come, relieve · To what, where: water, way, well, DEATH

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, water, following words), 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 let	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	parataxis
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stopped	cc
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 words	det
16	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 words	amod
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 well	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 well	det
21	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 relieve	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 relieve	punct
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	26 relieve	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Oh	punct
26	relieve	relieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 relieve	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let down	past	DEATH	water		accordingly property	tree rules
2	go	past	water	some way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	stop	past	water not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	the following words		the well		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from well=Initial_Location
6	relieve in a quote	infinitive	water not said here	DEATH			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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