Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 108
As the influence of his life and doctrines grew, a tendency arose to connect all the popular stories of India round the great teacher.
Who acts: tendency · What happens: grow, arise, connect · To what, where: popular stories
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tendency), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 influence | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 influence | det |
| 3 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 influence | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 doctrines | cc |
| 8 | doctrines | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 life | conj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arose | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tendency | det |
| 12 | tendency | tendency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arose | nsubj |
| 13 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 connect | mark |
| 15 | connect | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 arose | xcomp |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 stories | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stories | det |
| 18 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stories | amod |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 connect | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 India | case |
| 21 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 stories | nmod |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 teacher | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 teacher | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 teacher | amod |
| 25 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 connect | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | as the influence of Gautama's life and doctrines | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arise | past | a tendency | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | connect | to-infinitive | a tendency not said here | all popular stories of India | round the great teacher | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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