Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 79
Every day the young fellow used to go out and get what he could by begging.
What happens: use, go out, get, beg · To what, where: young fellow
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: 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fellow | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 could | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 begging | mark |
| 16 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 get | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the young fellow not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | gerund | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=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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