Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 30

In fact the money-lender noticed his high spirits at once, and said to himself, "Some good fortune must have befallen the stupid fellow, to make him hold his head so jauntily."

Who acts: money lender, lender · What happens: notice, say, befall, make, hold · To what, where: high spirits, fact, lender, good fortune, head · 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 (money lender, lender), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noticed	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lender	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lender	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 money	punct
6	lender	lender	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noticed	nsubj
7	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 spirits	nmod:poss
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spirits	amod
10	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 noticed	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 noticed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 noticed	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 befallen	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 befallen	punct
20	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 fortune	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fortune	amod
22	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 befallen	nsubj:pass
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 befallen	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 befallen	aux
25	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fellow	det
27	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fellow	amod
28	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 befallen	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 make	mark
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 befallen	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 make	obj
33	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 make	xcomp
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hold	obj
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 jauntily	advmod
37	jauntily	jauntily	ADV	_	33 hold	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 noticed	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	the money lender	lender's high spirits		fact		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past			lender			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	befall in a quote	must · perfect · passive		some good fortune				tree rules
4	make in a quote	to-infinitive		lender				tree rules
5	hold in a quote	infinitive	lender not said here	lender's head			jauntily property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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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