Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 38

Once upon a time they had travelled far afield, and were returning home with a great deal of money which they had obtained by selling their wares.

Who acts: merchants · What happens: travell, return, obtain, sell, deal · To what, where: afield, money, wares

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 (merchants), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 travelled	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travelled	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 travelled	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 travelled	aux
7	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 afield	advmod
9	afield	afield	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travelled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 returning	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 returning	cc
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 returning	aux
13	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 travelled	advcl
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 returning	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 deal	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 deal	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 deal	amod
18	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 returning	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 money	case
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deal	nmod
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 obtained	nsubj:pass
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 obtained	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 obtained	aux
24	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 money	acl:relcl
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 selling	mark
26	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 obtained	advcl
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wares	nmod:poss
28	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 selling	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	travell	past · perfect	merchants = merchant	afield	time	once property	tree rules
2	return	past · progressive	merchants = merchant not said here			with a great deal of money; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	obtain	past · perfect · passive		money			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme
4	sell	gerund		merchants's wares			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Theme
5	deal			money			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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