Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 7

The water was rather deep, so the old farmer took off his shoes and paijamas and crossed over; but the young man waded through it with his shoes and paijamas on.

Who acts: water, old farmer, young man · What happens: be, take off, cross over, wade · To what, where: shoes, water

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 (water, old farmer, young man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deep	cop
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 deep	advmod
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farmer	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 farmer	amod
10	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deep	parataxis
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 took	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shoes	nmod:poss
14	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 paijamas	cc
16	paijamas	paijama	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shoes	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 crossed	cc
18	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 took	conj
19	over	over	ADP	_	18 crossed	compound:prt
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 waded	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 waded	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waded	nsubj
25	waded	wade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deep	conj
26	through	through	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 waded	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 shoes	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 shoes	nmod:poss
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 waded	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 paijamas	cc
32	paijamas	paijama	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shoes	conj
33	on	on	ADV	_	30 shoes	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 deep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the water			deep property	tree rules
2	take off	past	the old farmer	farmer's shoes and paijamas			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
3	cross over	participle	the old farmer not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wade	past	the young man		water	with man's shoes and paijamas	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory

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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