Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 132

The old man, looking half amused and half angry, pushed back the knife, muttering something to the effect that his friend was either a fool himself or else trying to play the fool with him.

Who acts: old man, friend · What happens: look, amuse, push, mutter, be, try · To what, where: half, knife, something, effect, fool

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 (old man, friend), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looking	punct
5	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 man	acl
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 looking	obj
7	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 looking	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 angry	cc
9	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 amused	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pushed	punct
12	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	acl:relcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	15 knife	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 knife	det
15	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 muttering	punct
17	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 pushed	advcl
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 muttering	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 effect	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 effect	det
21	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 muttering	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 fool	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 friend	nmod:poss
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fool	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fool	cop
26	either	either	CCONJ	_	28 fool	cc:preconj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fool	det
28	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 effect	nmod
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 fool	nmod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 trying	cc
31	else	else	ADV	_	32 trying	advmod
32	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 fool	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 play	mark
34	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 trying	xcomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fool	det
36	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 play	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 play	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	the old man not said here	half			tree rules
2	amuse	participle	the old man not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	push	participle	the old man not said here	the knife			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	mutter speech: assert	gerund	the old man not said here	something	the effect		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to effect=Recipient
5	is a	past	Man's friend	a fool		Man nmod	tree rules
6	try	gerund	Man's friend not said here			else property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	Man's friend not said here	the fool		with Man	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent fool=Theme with he=Co-Agent

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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