Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 14

The people there, when they heard him say that, raised a shout of applause, because his speech chimed in so well with the object presented to him, and murmured, "Ah! a great sage, he knows even about the frog!"

Who acts: people, Fate, speech · What happens: hear, say, raise, chime, present, murmur · To what, where: Fate, that, shout, object, great sage, frog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Fate, speech), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	nsubj
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 people	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obj
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 heard	xcomp
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 say	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 raised	punct
12	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shout	det
14	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 raised	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 applause	case
16	applause	applause	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shout	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chimed	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 chimed	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 speech	nmod:poss
20	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chimed	nsubj
21	chimed	chime	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 raised	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 object	case
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 well	advmod
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 object	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 object	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 object	det
27	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chimed	obl
28	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 object	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 presented	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 murmured	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 murmured	cc
33	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sage	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 sage	punct
36	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	40 sage	discourse
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 Ah	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 sage	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sage	amod
40	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 murmured	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 knows	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 knows	nsubj
43	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	ccomp
44	even	even	ADV	_	47 frog	advmod
45	about	about	ADP	_	47 frog	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 frog	det
47	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 knows	obj
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	47 frog	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	the people	Fate			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Fate not said here	that			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
3	raise	past		a shout of applause			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme
4	chime	participle	Fate's speech			the object	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in object=Location
5	present	participle		the object not said here	Fate		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	murmur speech: other	past	the people not said here	a great sage			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	know in a quote	present	Fate	the frog			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus
8	shout			applause			nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	speak		Fate				nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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