Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 45

He did so; in a few days he visited the old man and put down four bags full of stones and gravel before him.

Who acts: son · What happens: do, visit, put down · To what, where: old man

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 (son), 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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 visited	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 days	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 days	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 visited	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 visited	nsubj
10	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 visited	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bags	cc
15	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 bags	amod
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 bags	nummod
18	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 man	acl:relcl
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bags	amod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 stones	case
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 full	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gravel	cc
23	gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stones	conj
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 visited	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	son			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	visit	past	son	the old man	before fellow; day	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
3	put down	participle				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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