Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 50

They denied having taken it, so he had to depart, leaving his fiddle behind him.

Who acts: brothers, Jogi · What happens: deny, have, take, depart, leave · To what, where: instrument, fiddle

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 (brothers, Jogi), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 denied	nsubj
2	denied	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 denied	xcomp
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 having	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 denied	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 depart	mark
11	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaving	punct
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 depart	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fiddle	nmod:poss
15	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaving	obj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leaving	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 denied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	deny	past	brothers = brother			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	gerund	brothers = brother not said here			tree rules
3	take	participle	brothers = brother not said here	instrument		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	have	past	Jogi			tree rules
5	depart	to-infinitive	Jogi not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	gerund	Jogi not said here	Jogi's fiddle	behind Jogi	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme behind he=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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