Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 121

"Ah!" thought he, as he lay down to rest, "here is a case for the first piece of advice that the Brahmani gave me.

Who acts: prince, Brahmani · What happens: think, lie down, rest, be, give · To what, where: prince, case, advice, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Brahmani), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 thought	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lay	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 lay	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lay	nsubj
10	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 case	csubj
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 lay	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rest	mark
13	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lay	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 here	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 here	punct
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 rest	advmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 case	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 case	det
19	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 piece	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 piece	det
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 piece	amod
23	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 case	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 advice	case
25	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 piece	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 gave	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Brahmani	det
28	Brahmani	Brahmani	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 advice	acl:relcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past		prince				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	lie down	past	prince				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest	to-infinitive	prince not said here			here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present		a case			for the first piece of advice	tree rules
5	give in a quote	past	the Brahmani	advice	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=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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