Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 29
These delicacies had completely changed his body into a red, stout, huge, unwieldy mass of flesh.
What happens: change · To what, where: delicacies, red unwieldy mass
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 delicacies | det |
| 2 | delicacies | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 changed | aux |
| 4 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 5 changed | advmod |
| 5 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 body | nmod:poss |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 mass | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mass | det |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mass | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stout | punct |
| 12 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 red | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 huge | punct |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 red | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 red | punct |
| 16 | unwieldy | unwieldy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mass | amod |
| 17 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 flesh | case |
| 19 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mass | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · perfect · passive | this delicacies | a red unwieldy mass of flesh | completely property | tree rules |
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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