Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 14

But thinking to himself, "Who knows what this fellow will do," he placed a small stick upright between his two jaws that he could not close his mouth, and inserting his head inside his mouth struck one end of the bone with his beak.

Who acts: fellow, friend, inserting · What happens: think, know, do, place, not close, insert · To what, where: friend, small stick, two jaws, mouth, head, one end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, friend, inserting), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 thinking	cc
2	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 thinking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thinking	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 knows	punct
7	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinking	parataxis
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 fellow	det
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 knows	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 placed	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 placed	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 placed	nsubj
17	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knows	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stick	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stick	amod
20	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 placed	obj
21	upright	upright	ADV	_	17 placed	advmod
22	between	between	ADP	_	25 jaws	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 jaws	nmod:poss
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 jaws	nummod
25	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 placed	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 close	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 close	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 close	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 close	advmod
30	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 placed	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mouth	nmod:poss
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 close	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 struck	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 struck	cc
35	inserting	insert	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 struck	csubj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 inserting	obj
38	inside	inside	ADP	_	40 mouth	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 mouth	nmod:poss
40	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 inserting	obl
41	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knows	conj
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 end	nummod
43	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 struck	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 bone	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 bone	det
46	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 end	nmod
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 beak	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 beak	nmod:poss
49	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bone	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund			friend			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	know in a quote	present						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do in a quote	future	this fellow					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	place	past	fellow	a small stick		friend's two jaws	upright property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme between jaw=Destination
5	not close	could	friend	friend's mouth				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
6	insert	gerund		friend's head		friend's mouth		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme inside mouth=Destination
7	strike	past	inserting	one end of the bone with friend's beak				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient

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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