Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 49

The lad was of course delighted at the very idea, and, giving up the pigeon, set off on his quest, armed as before with a potsherd, on which was written, "Do not fail this time.

Who acts: lad · What happens: delight, give up, set off, write, not fail, quest · To what, where: lad, idea, pigeon, quest

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 of	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	2 lad	case
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	delighted	delight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lad	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 idea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 idea	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 idea	advmod
10	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 delighted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 giving	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 giving	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 giving	punct
14	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 lad	acl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 giving	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pigeon	det
17	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 giving	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pigeon	acl
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 set	compound:prt
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 quest	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 quest	nmod:poss
23	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 armed	punct
25	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 quest	amod
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 before	case
27	before	before	ADV	_	25 armed	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 potsherd	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 potsherd	det
30	potsherd	potsherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 armed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 written	punct
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 written	obl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 written	aux:pass
35	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 set	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fail	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 fail	punct
38	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	40 fail	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 fail	advmod
40	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 written	conj
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 time	det
42	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fail	obl:unmarked
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	delight	participle		the lad not said here	the idea		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	give up	gerund	the lad not said here	the pigeon			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Source
3	set off	participle		the pigeon not said here	lad's quest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	write	past · passive					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination
5	not fail in a quote	infinitive · do-support				time	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	quest		lad				nom quest «cognition 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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