Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 51

The chief's son, being a musician, used to play on the Jogi's fiddle, and in his hands the music it gave forth delighted the ears of all who heard it.

Who acts: son, delighted ears · What happens: be, use, play, give, hear · To what, where: musician, fiddle, delighted ears

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 (son, delighted ears), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 chief	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 musician	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 musician	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 musician	det
8	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 musician	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 play	mark
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 used	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	17 fiddle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Jogi	det
15	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fiddle	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Jogi	case
17	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 play	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hands	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 music	det
24	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hands	iobj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 delighted	advmod
28	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ears	amod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ears	det
30	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 ears	nmod
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 heard	nsubj
34	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ears	acl:relcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	gerund		a musician		tree rules
2	use	participle		a musician not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play	to-infinitive			the Jogi's fiddle	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	the chief's son	the delighted ears of all		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
5	hear	past	the delighted ears of all	Fiddle		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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