Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 25

He meant that one of you should tell a story to beguile the time."

Who acts: man, one · What happens: mean, tell, beguile · To what, where: story · 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 (man, one), 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 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 tell	mark
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 tell	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 meant	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 beguile	mark
12	beguile	beguile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 story	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beguile	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	mean	past	man			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	should	one of you	a story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	beguile	to-infinitive	one of you not said here	a story not said here	time	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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