Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 48

While he was in this condition, they took away his fiddle, and substituted their own old one for it.

Who acts: Jogi, brothers · What happens: be, take away, substitute · To what, where: condition, fiddle, own old one

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, brothers), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 condition	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 condition	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 condition	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 condition	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 condition	det
6	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 condition	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	away	away	ADP	_	9 took	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fiddle	nmod:poss
12	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 substituted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 substituted	cc
15	substituted	substitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 one	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 substituted	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jogi		this condition		tree rules
2	take away	past	brothers = brother	Jogi's fiddle			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme
3	substitute	past	brothers = brother not said here	brothers's own old one		for Fiddle	vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme one=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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