Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 73

You see how, by his talking overmuch, The tortoise fell into this wretched plight!"

Who acts: You, tortoise · What happens: see, talk, fall · To what, where: wretched plight

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 (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 see	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 overmuch	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 overmuch	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 overmuch	nmod:poss
7	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 overmuch	amod
8	overmuch	overmuch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tortoise	det
11	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 overmuch	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 plight	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 plight	det
15	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 plight	amod
16	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 overmuch	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 overmuch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	see	present	You	by word's talking overmuch	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	talk	gerund			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	the tortoise	into this wretched plight result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into plight=Result

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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