Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 47

He pondered over the calamity that had come upon him and his friends, the dance they would have to perform, and the magnificent manner in which the three robbers had seated themselves on the grass.

Who acts: idea, calamity, dance · What happens: ponder, come, have, perform, seat · To what, where: calamity, magnificent manner, grass

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 (idea, calamity, dance), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pondered	nsubj
2	pondered	ponder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 calamity	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 calamity	det
5	calamity	calamity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pondered	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 come	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 calamity	acl:relcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 friends	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friends	nmod:poss
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 him	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dance	det
16	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	nsubj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pondered	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 perform	mark
21	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seated	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seated	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 manner	det
25	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 manner	amod
26	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seated	nsubj:pass
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 seated	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 robbers	det
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 robbers	nummod
31	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seated	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seated	aux
33	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pondered	parataxis
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 seated	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 grass	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 grass	det
37	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seated	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ponder	past	idea		the calamity		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past · perfect	the calamity			upon idea	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
3	have	would	the dance				tree rules
4	perform	to-infinitive	the dance not said here				vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	seat	past · perfect · passive		the magnificent manner	the grass		tree 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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