Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 41

I have often thought how stupid people were to venture into that swiftly flowing stream and over those sharp stones with bare feet.

Who acts: I, stupid people · What happens: think, venture, flow · To what, where: flowing stream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stupid people), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stupid	advmod
6	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 venture	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 venture	aux
9	to	to	PART	_	10 venture	mark
10	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
11	into	into	ADP	_	15 stream	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 stream	det
13	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	14 flowing	advmod
14	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 stream	amod
15	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 venture	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stones	cc
17	over	over	ADP	_	20 stones	case
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 stones	det
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stones	amod
20	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stream	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feet	amod
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stones	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · perfect	I		often property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	venture	past	stupid people	that flowing stream and that sharp stones with bare feet		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	flow	gerund			swiftly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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