Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 61

So he let down his vessel again, which was now caught hold of by the serpent, who addressed him thus: "Oh, my protector!

Who acts: thirst, vessel, serpent · What happens: let down, catch, be, address · To what, where: vessel, caught hold, thirst

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 (thirst, vessel, serpent), 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	_	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	down	down	ADP	_	3 let	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 vessel	nmod:poss
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 vessel	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hold	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hold	cop
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 caught	advmod
12	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 hold	amod
13	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vessel	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 serpent	case
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 serpent	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 serpent	det
17	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 addressed	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 addressed	nsubj
20	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 serpent	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 addressed	obj
22	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 addressed	advmod
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 protector	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 protector	punct
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	28 protector	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Oh	punct
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 protector	nmod:poss
28	protector	protector	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let down	past	thirst	thirst's vessel and caught hold			my protector obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme
2	catch	participle				now		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	thirst's vessel and caught hold	caught hold			of the serpent	tree rules
4	address	past	the serpent		thirst		thus property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination

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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