Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 81

Thenceforth he sought for some one to tell him his faults, but among those around him he found no one who would tell him of any fault, but heard only his own praise.

Who acts: hall, one · What happens: seek, tell, find, hear, fault, praise · To what, where: faults, hall, one, own praise · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hall, 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	Thenceforth	thenceforth	ADV	_	3 sought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sought	nsubj
3	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 one	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sought	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sought	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 faults	nmod:poss
11	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
14	among	among	ADP	_	15 those	case
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 found	obl
16	around	around	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 those	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sought	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 tell	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 one	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 fault	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 fault	det
28	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 heard	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 heard	cc
31	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sought	conj
32	only	only	ADV	_	35 praise	advmod
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 praise	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 praise	amod
35	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heard	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seek	past	hall			for some one; thenceforth property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for one=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	hall not said here	hall's faults	hall		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient fault=Topic
3	find	past	hall	no one		among those	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	would	no one		hall	of any fault	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	hear	past	hall not said here	hall's own praise			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer praise=Stimulus
6	fault		hall				nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	praise		hall				nom praise «communication transitive»: 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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