Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 55

Great attention was shown to him, and he was treated in every way as if he were the son of a great man, although his humble host knew nothing of his origin.

Who acts: farmer, humble host · What happens: show, treat, be, know · To what, where: Great attention, farmer, way, nothing

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 (farmer, humble host), 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 attention	amod
2	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shown	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shown	aux:pass
4	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shown	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 treated	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 treated	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 treated	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 treated	aux:pass
11	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shown	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obl
15	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	20 son	case
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 as	fixed
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 son	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 son	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 son	det
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 man	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 son	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
26	although	although	SCONJ	_	30 knew	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 host	nmod:poss
28	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 host	amod
29	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 treated	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 knew	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 origin	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 origin	nmod:poss
34	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nothing	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	past · passive		Great attention	farmer			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to he=Recipient
2	treat	past · passive		farmer		every way		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is	past	farmer				as the son; of a great man	tree rules
4	know	past	man's humble host	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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