Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 96

He made himself as tall as a palm tree; his head was the size of a pagoda, his eyes as big as saucers, and he had two tusks all over knobs and bulbs; he had the face of a hawk, a variegated belly, and blue hands and feet.

Who acts: Bodhisatta, head · What happens: make, be, have · To what, where: Bodhisatta, size, two tusks, knobs, face

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 (Bodhisatta, head), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 made	obj
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tall	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 size	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 size	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 size	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 size	det
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 pagoda	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pagoda	det
18	pagoda	pagoda	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 size	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eyes	punct
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 size	parataxis
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 big	advmod
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eyes	amod
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 saucers	case
25	saucers	saucer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 big	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 tusks	nummod
31	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	obj
32	all	all	ADV	_	34 knobs	advmod
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 knobs	case
34	knobs	knob	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tusks	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bulbs	cc
36	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 knobs	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 face	det
41	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 hawk	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 hawk	det
44	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 face	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 belly	punct
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 belly	det
47	variegated	variegated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 belly	amod
48	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 face	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 hands	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 hands	cc
51	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 hands	amod
52	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 had	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 feet	cc
54	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 hands	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Bodhisatta	Bodhisatta		tall property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
2	is a	past	Bodhisatta's head	the size		of a pagoda	tree rules
3	have	past	Bodhisatta	two tusks	knobs and bulbs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tusk=Patient
4	have	past	Bodhisatta	the face of a hawk and a variegated belly		blue hands and feet obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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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