Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 21

At last, he came upon a poor man sitting under a tree, and finding out he was hungry, the kindly farmer gave him his last cake, and sitting down to rest beside him, entered into conversation.

Who acts: friend, poor man, farmer · What happens: come, sit, find out, be, give, sit down · To what, where: last, tree, last cake, friend, conversation

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 (friend, poor man, farmer), 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	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 man	acl
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hungry	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hungry	cc
16	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 hungry	csubj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 finding	compound:prt
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hungry	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hungry	cop
20	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 farmer	det
23	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	24 farmer	advmod
24	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	iobj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cake	nmod:poss
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cake	amod
29	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sitting	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sitting	cc
32	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 gave	advcl
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 sitting	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 rest	mark
35	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sitting	advcl
36	beside	beside	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rest	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 entered	punct
39	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gave	conj
40	into	into	ADP	_	41 conversation	case
41	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 entered	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	friend			last	upon a poor man	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	sit	gerund	a poor man not said here			a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
3	find out	gerund						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	friend				hungry property	tree rules
5	give	past	the farmer	friend's last cake	friend			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=Theme
6	sit down	gerund	the farmer not said here				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	rest	to-infinitive	the farmer not said here				beside friend	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Location
8	enter	past	the farmer not said here			conversation		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial_Location

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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