Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 24

And shaking her hands she showered down such a choice dinner as never was seen before.

Who acts: mother · What happens: shake, shower down, not see · To what, where: hands, choice dinner

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 (mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 showered	cc
2	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 showered	csubj
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shaking	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 showered	nsubj
6	showered	shower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 showered	compound:prt
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 dinner	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dinner	det
10	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dinner	compound
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 showered	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 seen	mark
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 seen	advmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux:pass
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 showered	advcl
16	before	before	ADV	_	15 seen	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 showered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund		mother's hands		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	shower down	past	mother	such choice dinner		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not see	past · passive	mother not said here		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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