Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 105

I had his oil crushed out by the ants," he said to himself. "

Who acts: I, oil, son · What happens: have, crush out, say · To what, where: oil, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, oil, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 oil	nmod:poss
4	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 crushed	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 ants	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ants	det
9	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crushed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 said	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	son's oil			tree rules
2	crush out	participle	son's oil not said here			by the ants	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	son		son		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic

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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