Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 99

But instead of that they devoured it.

Who acts: corpses · What happens: devour · To what, where: deity

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: who acts (corpses), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 devoured	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	4 that	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 devoured	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 devoured	nsubj
6	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 devoured	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 devoured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	devour	past	corpses = corpse	deity				instead that	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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