Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 56

At length he told them everything--about the laughing of the fish, his father's threatened execution, and his own banishment--and asked their advice as to what he should do.

Who acts: host, father · What happens: tell, threaten, ask, do, execute, banish · To what, where: everything, rest, length, advice · 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 (host, father), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 told	obj
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 laughing	punct
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 laughing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 laughing	det
10	laughing	laughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 fish	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fish	det
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughing	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 execution	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 execution	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 father	case
18	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 execution	amod
19	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughing	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 banishment	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 banishment	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 banishment	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 banishment	amod
24	banishment	banishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	conj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 advice	nmod:poss
29	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asked	obj
30	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	32 what	case
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 as	fixed
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 asked	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 do	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 do	aux
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 what	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	host	everything	rest	length	about the laughing of the fish and host's father's threatened execution	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient everything=Topic
2	threaten	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	ask speech: ask	past	host not said here	laughing's advice				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient
4	do	should	host					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	execute		host's father					nom execution «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	banish		host					nom banishment «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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