Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 44

Then he came to the seventy gongs, all in a row, and he hammered them so hard that they cracked to pieces.

Who acts: Rasalu, gongs · What happens: come, hammer, crack · To what, where: row, gongs

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu, gongs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 gongs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gongs	det
6	seventy	seventy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gongs	amod
7	gongs	gong	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 row	punct
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 row	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 row	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 row	det
12	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hammered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hammered	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hammered	nsubj
16	hammered	hammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hammered	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 hard	advmod
19	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 hammered	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 cracked	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cracked	nsubj
22	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hammered	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 pieces	case
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cracked	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Rasalu		a row	then	to the seventy gongs	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gong=Initial_Location
2	hammer	past	Rasalu	gongs = gong			hard property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	crack	past	gongs = gong				to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to piece=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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