Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 22

Never were such rejoicings as these few words produced.

Who acts: such rejoicings · What happens: not be, produce · To what, where: few words

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 (such rejoicings), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 were	advmod
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rejoicings	amod
4	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 produced	mark
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 words	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 produced	nsubj:pass
9	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	past	such rejoicings						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	produce	participle · passive		this few words					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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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