Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 16

At the last, when he hadn't a farthing left, farmer went to the money-lender's house, and said, "You can't squeeze water from a stone, and as you have nothing to get by me now, you might tell me the secret of becoming rich."

Who acts: hawker, farmer, You, secret · What happens: have, leave, go, say, not squeeze, get · To what, where: farthing, house, water, stone, nothing, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hawker, farmer, You, secret), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 last	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 tell	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 had	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 last	parataxis
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 farthing	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 farthing	det
10	farthing	farthing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 farthing	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	21 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lender	det
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lender	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 money	punct
19	lender	lender	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 house	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 lender	case
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 squeeze	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 squeeze	punct
27	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 squeeze	nsubj
28	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 squeeze	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 squeeze	advmod
30	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 squeeze	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 stone	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stone	det
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 squeeze	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 have	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 have	cc
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 have	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 have	nsubj
39	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 squeeze	conj
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 have	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 get	mark
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 nothing	acl
43	by	by	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 get	obl
45	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 get	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 last	punct
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 tell	nsubj
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 tell	aux
49	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 tell	iobj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 secret	det
52	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 tell	obj
53	of	of	SCONJ	_	54 becoming	mark
54	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 secret	acl
55	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 becoming	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 tell	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	hawker	a farthing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farthing=Patient
2	leave	participle		a farthing not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	farmer			the money lender's house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	farmer not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not squeeze in a quote	can	You	water		a stone			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme from stone=Trajectory
6	have in a quote	present	you	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
7	get in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	nothing not said here			now	by farmer	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	tell speech: assert in a quote	might	you	the secret	farmer	the last			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient secret=Topic
9	become in a quote	gerund	the secret not said here					rich property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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