Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 50

Then the Fakir made a dash at the King's son, thinking to catch him and throw him into the caldron.

Who acts: Fakir · What happens: make, think, catch, throw · To what, where: dash, Fakir, caldron

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 (Fakir), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fakir	det
3	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dash	det
6	dash	dash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 son	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 son	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 King	case
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinking	punct
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 catch	mark
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thinking	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 catch	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 throw	cc
18	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 catch	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 throw	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 caldron	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 caldron	det
22	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throw	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Fakir	a dash	then	at the King's son	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dash=Product
2	think speech: other	gerund	the Fakir not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	catch	to-infinitive	the Fakir not said here	Fakir			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	throw	infinitive	the Fakir not said here	Fakir		into the caldron result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into caldron=Result

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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