Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 68

But he, being unable to hold his tongue when he hears any one else talk, must have wanted to say something, and let go the stick; and so must have fallen down from the sky, and thus lost his life."

Who acts: Tortoise, one · What happens: be, hold, hear, want, say, let · To what, where: tongue, talk, something, stick, sky, life · 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 (Tortoise, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 unable	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unable	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 he	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 unable	cop
5	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unable	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tongue	nmod:poss
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 hears	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hears	nsubj
12	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	advcl
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 talk	nmod:poss
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
16	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hears	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wanted	punct
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wanted	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	aux
20	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 unable	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 say	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 unable	parataxis
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stick	det
29	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 unable	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fallen	cc
32	so	so	ADV	_	35 fallen	advmod
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 fallen	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 fallen	aux
35	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 unable	conj
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 fallen	compound:prt
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 sky	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sky	det
39	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fallen	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lost	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lost	cc
42	thus	thus	ADV	_	43 lost	advmod
43	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unable	parataxis
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 life	nmod:poss
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lost	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unable	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 unable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Tortoise			unable property	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	Tortoise not said here	Tortoise's tongue			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
3	hear	present	Tortoise	any one's talk			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
4	want	must · perfect					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive		something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
6	let	infinitive					tree rules
7	go	infinitive		the stick			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stick=Theme
8	fall down	must · perfect	Tortoise not said here		the sky		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location
9	lose	past		Tortoise's life		thus property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
10	talk		any one				nom talk «communication intransitive»: 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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