Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 4

But Harisarman reflected in his astonishment: "Fate brings about, as if in sport, things impossible, for when calamity was so near, who would have thought chance would have brought us success?

Who acts: Harisarman, Fate, calamity · What happens: reflect, bring about, be, think, bring, astonish · To what, where: astonishment, chance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harisarman, Fate, calamity), 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	_	3 reflected	cc
2	Harisarman	Harisarman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reflected	nsubj
3	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 astonishment	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 astonishment	nmod:poss
6	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reflected	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 brings	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 brings	punct
9	Fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brings	nsubj
10	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reflected	parataxis
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 brings	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 impossible	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 impossible	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 impossible	mark
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 sport	case
16	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 impossible	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sport	punct
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 impossible	nsubj
19	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brings	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 brought	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 near	mark
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 near	advmod
23	calamity	calamity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 near	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 near	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 near	advmod
26	near	near	ADV	_	35 brought	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 thought	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 thought	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 thought	aux
31	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 brought	advcl
32	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 brought	nsubj:pass
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 brought	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 brought	aux
35	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 success	amod
36	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 brought	obj
37	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 impossible	parataxis
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reflected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reflect	past	Harisarman		Harisarman's astonishment		tree rules
2	bring about in a quote	present	Fate			about property	vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition
3	is in a quote	past	calamity			near property	tree rules
4	think speech: other in a quote	would · perfect					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bring in a quote	would · perfect · passive		chance			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme we=Destination
6	astonish		Harisarman				nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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