Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 23

While we were walking together he asked whether he should carry me or I should carry him, as he thought that would be a pleasanter mode of proceeding."

Who acts: we, man, I, that · What happens: walk, ask, carry, think, be · To what, where: me, man, pleasanter mode · 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 (we, man, I, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 walking	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 walking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walking	aux
4	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 asked	advcl
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 walking	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	nsubj
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 carry	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carry	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 carry	aux
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 carry	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 carry	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 carry	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 carry	aux
16	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carry	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 thought	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	conj
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 mode	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 mode	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 mode	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mode	det
26	pleasanter	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 mode	amod
27	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thought	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 proceeding	case
29	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mode	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	we		together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	carry	should	man	me		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	carry	should	I	man		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	man			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	would	that	a pleasanter mode	of proceeding	tree rules

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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