Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 40

He now and then visited, when on his rounds, the house of the Bonga girl's brothers, and the strains of the fiddle affected them greatly.

Who acts: Jogi, strains, fiddle · What happens: visit, affect, strain · To what, where: brothers

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jogi, strains, fiddle), 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	5 visited	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 visited	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 then	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 visited	advmod
5	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 when	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 visited	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 rounds	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 rounds	nmod:poss
10	rounds	round	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 when	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 house	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rounds	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 brothers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 girl	det
16	Bonga	Bonga	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 girl	compound
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brothers	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 girl	case
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 house	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 affected	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 affected	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 strains	det
23	strains	strain	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 affected	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 fiddle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fiddle	det
26	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 strains	nmod
27	affected	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 visited	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 affected	obj
29	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	27 affected	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	visit	past	Jogi		now; then		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	affect	past	the strains of the fiddle	brothers = brother		greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	strain		the fiddle				nom strain «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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