Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 30

Then he bethought him of the cricket, and drawing the feeler from his pocket, thrust it into the fire.

Who acts: Rasalu · What happens: bethink, draw · To what, where: brother, feeler, fire

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bethought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bethought	nsubj
3	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bethought	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cricket	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cricket	det
7	cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bethought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drawing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drawing	cc
10	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bethought	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feeler	det
12	feeler	feeler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawing	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 pocket	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pocket	nmod:poss
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawing	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thrust	punct
17	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pocket	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pocket	nsubj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawing	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bethink	past	Rasalu	brother			then	of the cricket	tree rules
2	draw	gerund	Rasalu not said here	the feeler				into the fire result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent feeler=Patient into fire=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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