Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 90

Gangazara for a while thought upon the repeated advice given by the three animals about releasing the goldsmith: "What wrong would there be in my assisting him?

Who acts: three animals, my · What happens: think, repeat, give, release, assist · To what, where: while, repeated advice, goldsmith, Gangazara · 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 (three animals, my), 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	Gangazara	Gangazara	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 wrong	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 while	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 while	det
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gangazara	nmod
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 while	acl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 advice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 advice	det
8	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 advice	amod
9	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 advice	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 animals	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 animals	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 animals	nummod
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 given	obl:agent
15	about	about	SCONJ	_	16 releasing	mark
16	releasing	release	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 animals	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 goldsmith	det
18	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 releasing	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 wrong	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 wrong	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 wrong	nsubj
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 assisting	aux
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 assisting	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 assisting	aux
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 assisting	mark
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 assisting	nsubj
28	assisting	assist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 wrong	csubj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 assisting	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 wrong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	participle		a while not said here			upon the repeated advice	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	repeat	participle						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	give	participle		the repeated advice not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	release	gerund	the three animals not said here	the goldsmith				vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer goldsmith=Source
5	assist in a quote	would · progressive	my		Gangazara	there		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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