Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 14

All the rocks and trees you see here were living people once, and the Magician turned them to what they now are.

Who acts: you, rocks, Magician · What happens: see, live, turn, be · To what, where: rocks, people

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rocks, Magician), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 rocks	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rocks	det
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 living	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 trees	cc
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rocks	conj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rocks	acl:relcl
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 see	advmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 living	aux
10	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 living	obj
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 living	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turned	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Magician	det
16	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 turned	nsubj
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 living	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turned	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 what	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 turned	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 are	nsubj
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 are	advmod
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 what	cop
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 living	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	you	all rocks and trees not said here	here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus
2	live	past · progressive	all rocks and trees	people		once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme people=Location
3	turn	past	the Magician	people			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is	present					tree rules

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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