Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 58

As he went along the road he saw above him a bald man, grazing a herd of calves, and this bald man called out to him, "Fellow! can you fight at all?"

Who acts: son, bald man, you · What happens: go, see, graze, call out, fight · To what, where: road, bald man, herd, son, all · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, bald man, you), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	advcl
4	along	along	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	above	above	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grazing	punct
15	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 saw	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 herd	det
17	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grazing	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 calves	case
19	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 herd	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 called	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 called	cc
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 man	det
23	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	nsubj
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saw	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 called	compound:prt
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 called	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Fellow	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Fellow	punct
31	Fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saw	parataxis
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 fight	punct
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 fight	aux
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 fight	nsubj
35	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 Fellow	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 all	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 fight	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 Fellow	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	son			the road		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location
2	see	past	son	a bald man			above Man	tree rules
3	graze	gerund	son not said here	a herd of calves				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Experiencer
4	call out speech: assert	participle	this bald man		son			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	fight in a quote	can	you			all		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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