Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 123

But though at first they disliked the handsome little boy, he soon proved so useful to them, that ere long they all looked on him as their son.

Who acts: slaves, boy, that · What happens: dislike, prove, ere, look · To what, where: handsome little boy

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 (slaves, boy, that), 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 disliked	cc
2	though	though	ADV	_	6 disliked	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 first	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 disliked	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 disliked	nsubj
6	disliked	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
8	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disliked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proved	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 proved	nsubj
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 proved	advmod
14	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 disliked	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 useful	advmod
16	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 proved	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 useful	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ere	punct
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 ere	nsubj
21	ere	ere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 proved	conj
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 ere	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looked	nsubj
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 looked	advmod
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ere	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looked	obl
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 son	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 son	nmod:poss
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 disliked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dislike	past	slaves = slave	the handsome little boy	though property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	prove	past	boy		soon, useful property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	ere	past	that		long property	tree rules
4	look	past	slaves = slave		on boy; as slaves's son; all property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme

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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