Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 41

On the other hand, he walked round his patron three times, and standing before him, humbly spoke the following words: "My life-giver, my benefactor!

Who acts: king · What happens: walk, stand, speak, follow · To what, where: other hand, following words · 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 (king), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 hand	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hand	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hand	amod
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walked	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walked	nsubj
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 patron	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 patron	nmod:poss
10	patron	patron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walked	obl
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walked	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 standing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 standing	cc
15	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 walked	advcl
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 standing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct
19	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	20 spoke	advmod
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walked	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 words	det
22	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 words	amod
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 spoke	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 giver	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 giver	punct
26	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 giver	nmod:poss
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 giver	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 life	punct
29	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 words	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 benefactor	punct
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 benefactor	nmod:poss
32	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 giver	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	king		the other hand	time	round king's patron	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory
2	stand	gerund	king not said here			before king		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	speak speech: other	past	king not said here	the following words			humbly property	tree rules
4	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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