Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 109

So lonesome was it that even the corpse seemed company, and Rasalu, sitting down beside it, said:

Who acts: lonesome · What happens: be, seem, sit down, say · To what, where: ground, company, corpse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lonesome), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 seemed	advmod
2	lonesome	lonesome	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lonesome	conj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 seemed	mark
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 corpse	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corpse	det
8	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	advcl
10	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Rasalu	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Rasalu	cc
13	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 seemed	xcomp
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 sitting	advmod
17	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sitting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lonesome not said here	ground			tree rules
2	seem	past	lonesome	company		Rasalu obl	tree rules
3	sit down	gerund	lonesome not said here		corpse	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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