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Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 17

Whilst he was journeying he passed through a town, where every one of the inhabitants looked so sad, that he could not help asking what was the matter.

Who acts: son, one, matter · What happens: journey, pass, look, not help, ask, be · To what, where: town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, one, matter), 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

marknsubjauxadvclnsubjcasedetoblpunctadvmoddetnsubjcasedetnmodacl:relcladvmodxcomppunctmarknsubjauxadvmodadvclxcompccompcopdetnsubjpunctrootWhilstSCONJhePRONwasAUXjourneyingVERBhePRONpassedVERBthroughADPaDETtownNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVeveryDEToneNOUNofADPtheDETinhabitantsNOUNlookedVERBsoADVsadADJ,PUNCTthatSCONJhePRONcouldAUXnotPARThelpVERBaskingVERBwhatPRONwasAUXtheDETmatterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhilstwhilstSCONJ_4 journeyingmark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 journeyingnsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 journeyingaux
4journeyingjourneyVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 passedadvcl
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 passednsubj
6passedpassVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7throughthroughADP_9 towncase
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 towndet
9towntownNOUNNumber=Sing6 passedobl
10,,PUNCT_17 lookedpunct
11wherewhereADVPronType=Rel17 lookedadvmod
12everyeveryDETPronType=Tot13 onedet
13oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing17 lookednsubj
14ofofADP_16 inhabitantscase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 inhabitantsdet
16inhabitantsinhabitantNOUNNumber=Plur13 onenmod
17lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 townacl:relcl
18sosoADV_19 sadadvmod
19sadsadADJDegree=Pos17 lookedxcomp
20,,PUNCT_25 helppunct
21thatthatSCONJ_25 helpmark
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 helpnsubj
23couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 helpaux
24notnotPARTPolarity=Neg25 helpadvmod
25helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf6 passedadvcl
26askingaskVERBVerbForm=Ger25 helpxcomp
27whatwhatPRONPronType=Int26 askingccomp
28wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 whatcop
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 matterdet
30mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing27 whatnsubj
31..PUNCT_6 passedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1journeypast · progressivesonvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2passpastsona townvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through town=Location
3lookpastevery one of the inhabitantssad propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4not helpcouldsonvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5ask speech: ask not said to happengerundson not said herevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6is apastthe mattertree 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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