Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 48

And so he was, in a twinkling, but the money-lender of course was blind of both, and in trying to steer his way between the two new wells, he fell into one, and was drowned.

Who acts: friend, twinkling · What happens: be, try, steer, fall, drown · To what, where: twinkling, way, two new wells

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, twinkling), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 twinkling	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	8 twinkling	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 twinkling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 twinkling	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 twinkling	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 twinkling	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 twinkling	det
8	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blind	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lender	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 lender	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lender	det
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lender	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 money	punct
14	lender	lender	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 twinkling	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 course	case
16	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lender	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 blind	cop
18	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 both	case
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 blind	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fell	cc
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 trying	mark
24	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 fell	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 steer	mark
26	steer	steer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 trying	xcomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 way	nmod:poss
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 steer	obj
29	between	between	ADP	_	33 wells	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wells	det
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 wells	nummod
32	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wells	amod
33	wells	well	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 way	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 trying	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fell	nsubj
36	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 blind	parataxis
37	into	into	ADP	_	38 one	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 fell	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 drowned	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 drowned	cc
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 drowned	aux:pass
42	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 fell	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	friend		a twinkling but the money lender of course		tree rules
2	is	past	a twinkling but the money lender of course			of both; blind property	tree rules
3	try	gerund	friend not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	steer not said to happen	to-infinitive	friend not said here	friend's way	the two new wells		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme between well=Destination
5	fall	past	friend			into one result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into one=Result
6	drown	past · passive	friend not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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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