Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 118

Then he butted at him with his head, crying, "I'll pound you to powder!" and his head stuck fast like the rest.

Who acts: Bodhisatta, head · What happens: butt, cry, pound, powder, stick · Speech: someone speaks here

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, head), 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	3 butted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 butted	nsubj
3	butted	butt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 butted	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 butted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crying	punct
10	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 butted	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 butted	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 pound	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 pound	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 pound	aux
15	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 butted	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 pound	goeswith
17	to	to	PART	_	18 powder	mark
18	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 pound	acl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 pound	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 pound	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stuck	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stuck	nsubj
24	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 butted	conj
25	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 stuck	advmod
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 rest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rest	det
28	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stuck	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 butted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	butt	past	Bodhisatta	then	at fly; with Bodhisatta's head	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund	Bodhisatta not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pound in a quote	future	Bodhisatta			tree rules
4	powder in a quote	to-infinitive	Bodhisatta not said here			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	stick	past	Bodhisatta's head		like the rest; fast property	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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