Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 46

To tell you briefly how I came in here: Three days ago I was roaming in yonder forest, when I saw a goldsmith passing through it.

Who acts: I, goldsmith · What happens: tell, come in, roam, see, pass · To what, where: you, forest, goldsmith · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, goldsmith), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	briefly	briefly	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 came	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 roaming	punct
11	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ago	obl:unmarked
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	16 roaming	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 roaming	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 roaming	aux
16	roaming	roam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 forest	case
18	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	19 forest	advmod
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 roaming	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 saw	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 roaming	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 goldsmith	det
25	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
26	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 goldsmith	acl
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 passing	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		briefly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	come in	past	I			here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roam	past · progressive	I			forest	ago property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory
4	see	past	I	a goldsmith				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goldsmith=Stimulus
5	pass	gerund	a goldsmith not said here				through goldsmith	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=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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