Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 51

On the third lies a rat, also half-famished, and when you again begin to draw water these may request you first to release them.

Who acts: rat, you, these · What happens: lie, famish, begin, draw, request, release · To what, where: third, water, you, claws

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 (rat, you, these), 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	_	3 third	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 third	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 lies	obl
4	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rat	det
6	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lies	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 famished	punct
8	also	also	ADV	_	11 famished	advmod
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 famished	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 half	punct
11	famished	famish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lies	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begin	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begin	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 begin	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 begin	nsubj
16	again	again	ADV	_	17 begin	advmod
17	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lies	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 draw	mark
19	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begin	xcomp
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 draw	obj
21	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 request	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 request	aux
23	request	request	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 draw	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 request	obj
25	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 request	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 release	mark
27	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 request	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 release	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	a rat			the third			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on third=Location
2	famish	participle	a rat not said here						tree rules
3	begin	present	you				again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	draw	to-infinitive	you not said here	water					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
5	request	may	these		you			first property	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	release	to-infinitive	these not said here	claws = claw					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source

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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