Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 41
And the knowledge that this was so preyed upon the farmer's mind day and night, so that he had no satisfaction out of anything.
Who acts: lender · What happens: prey, have · To what, where: knowledge, satisfaction, anything
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lender), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 preyed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knowledge | det |
| 3 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preyed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 this | mark |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 knowledge | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 preyed | aux:pass |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 preyed | advmod |
| 8 | preyed | prey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farmer | det |
| 11 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 farmer | case |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | compound |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preyed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 night | cc |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 had | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 preyed | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 satisfaction | det |
| 23 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 anything | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 anything | case |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 had | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 preyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prey | past · passive | the knowledge this | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | lender | no satisfaction | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=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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