Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 44

The friend sympathised very much with him, and promised to think over the matter, and call in a little while and tell him what to do.

Who acts: friend · What happens: sympathis, promise, think, call, tell, do · To what, where: matter, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sympathised	nsubj
3	sympathised	sympathis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	3 sympathised	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sympathised	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 promised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 promised	cc
10	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sympathised	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 think	mark
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promised	xcomp
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 matter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 think	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 call	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 call	cc
18	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sympathised	parataxis
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 while	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 while	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 while	amod
22	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 call	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 call	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 do	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tell	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sympathised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sympathis	past	the friend				with son	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past	the friend not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the friend not said here		the matter			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	call	infinitive				while		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive		son				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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