Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 117

With his right foot he kicked him--that stuck too; then with his left--and that stuck too!

Who acts: Bodhisatta, that · What happens: kick, stick · To what, where: fly

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bodhisatta, that), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 foot	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 foot	nmod:poss
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 foot	amod
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kicked	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kicked	nsubj
6	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kicked	obj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 stuck	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 stuck	nsubj
10	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kicked	conj
11	too	too	ADV	_	10 stuck	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 left	advmod
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	16 left	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 left	nmod:poss
16	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kicked	conj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 stuck	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stuck	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 stuck	nsubj
20	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kicked	conj
21	too	too	ADV	_	20 stuck	advmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 kicked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kick	past	Bodhisatta	fly	with Bodhisatta's right foot	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with foot=Instrument
2	stick	past	that			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	stick	past	that			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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