Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 45

This was too much for any farmer to stand; and our friend brooded over it, and brooded over it, till at last a bright idea came into his head.

Who acts: This, farmer, friend, bright idea · What happens: be, stand, brood, come · To what, where: water, last

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 (This, farmer, friend, bright idea), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 much	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 stand	mark
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 farmer	det
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stand	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stand	mark
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 brooded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brooded	cc
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brooded	nsubj
14	brooded	brood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	parataxis
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brooded	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 brooded	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brooded	cc
19	brooded	brood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 brooded	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brooded	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 came	mark
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 came	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 idea	det
27	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 idea	amod
28	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 brooded	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	This		much property	tree rules
2	stand	to-infinitive	any farmer			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	brood	past	our friend	water		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	brood	past	our friend not said here	water		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	a bright idea	last	into idea's head	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location

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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