Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 41

Some of them were moved even to tears, for the fiddle seemed to wail as one in bitter anguish.

Who acts: fiddle · What happens: move, seem, wail · To what, where: Some, tears, bitter anguish

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 (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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 moved	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Some	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 moved	aux:pass
5	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 tears	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 tears	case
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 moved	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 seemed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fiddle	det
12	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 moved	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 wail	mark
15	wail	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 wail	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 anguish	case
19	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 anguish	amod
20	anguish	anguish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wail	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past · passive		Some	tears		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to tear=Trajectory
2	seem	past	the fiddle				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	wail	to-infinitive	the fiddle not said here		bitter anguish	as one	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anguish=Location

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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