Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 11

How great was his grief and disappointment when he knew the facts of the case!

Who acts: merchant · What happens: be, know · To what, where: great grief, facts

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 great	advmod
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grief	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grief	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grief	nmod:poss
5	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 disappointment	cc
7	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grief	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 knew	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grief	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 facts	det
12	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knew	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 case	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 case	det
15	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 facts	nmod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 grief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		merchant's great grief and disappointment					tree rules
2	know	past	merchant	the facts of the case					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=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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