Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 123

Finding the old man very pleasant, he asked him if he might accompany him, professing to be on a visit to the same place.

Who acts: Man, Kismat · What happens: find, ask, accompany, profess, be · To what, where: old man, Kismat, Man, visit

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, Kismat), 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	Finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 pleasant	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Finding	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 pleasant	advmod
6	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleasant	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 accompany	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 accompany	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 accompany	aux
14	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 accompany	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 professing	punct
17	professing	profess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 accompany	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	22 visit	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 visit	cop
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 visit	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 visit	det
22	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 professing	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 place	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 place	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 place	amod
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 visit	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	gerund		the old man				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	Man		Kismat			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	accompany a condition, not said to happen	might	Kismat	Man				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	profess	gerund	Kismat not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is	to-infinitive	Kismat not said here			a visit	to the same place	tree rules

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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