Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 67

This tortoise must have made friends with the wild ducks; and they must have made him bite hold of the stick, and have flown up into the air to take him to the hills.

Who acts: ducks, Tortoise · What happens: make, bite, fly up, take, hold · To what, where: tortoise, hold, air, hills, stick

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 (ducks, Tortoise), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 ducks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ducks	det
9	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ducks	compound
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 friends	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 made	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 made	aux
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 made	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	obj
18	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 made	xcomp
19	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bite	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 stick	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stick	det
22	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hold	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flown	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flown	cc
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 flown	aux
26	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 made	conj
27	up	up	ADV	_	26 flown	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 air	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flown	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 take	mark
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 flown	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 take	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 hills	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hills	det
36	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 take	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	must · perfect · passive		this tortoise			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	make	must · perfect	ducks = duck	Tortoise			tree rules
3	bite	infinitive	Tortoise not said here	hold of the stick			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Patient
4	fly up	present · perfect				into the air result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result
5	take	to-infinitive		Tortoise	the hills		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hill=Destination
6	hold			the stick			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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