Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 42

At last, there came a very dry season,--so dry that the farmer's crops withered for want of rain.

Who acts: crops · What happens: come, wither, want · To what, where: last, rain

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 (crops), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 came	expl
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 season	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 dry	advmod
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 season	amod
9	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dry	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 dry	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 dry	advmod
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 withered	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 farmer	det
16	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crops	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 farmer	case
18	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 withered	nsubj
19	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dry	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 want	case
21	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 withered	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 rain	case
23	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 want	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past			last; there	season		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	wither	past	the farmer's crops				for want of rain	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	want			rain				nom want «state 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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