Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 67

He saw that it was a pleasant pool, and thought he would stop and bathe there, and therewith he began to strip off his clothes.

Who acts: son, slave · What happens: see, be, think, stop, bathe, begin · To what, where: pleasant pool, clothes · 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, slave), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 pool	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pool	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pool	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pool	det
7	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pool	amod
8	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stop	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stop	aux
14	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bathe	cc
16	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stop	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 bathe	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 began	cc
20	therewith	therewith	ADV	_	22 began	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 strip	mark
24	strip	strip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 strip	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 clothes	nmod:poss
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	24 strip	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	son				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	slave	a pleasant pool			tree rules
3	think speech: other	past					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	stop	would	son				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	bathe	infinitive	son not said here		there		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	begin	past	son			therewith property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	strip off	to-infinitive	son not said here	son's clothes			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

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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