Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 54

And thus they continued to the day of the old man's demise, when the bags were greedily opened, and found to contain only stones and gravel!

Who acts: men · What happens: continue, open, find, contain · To what, where: bags, stones

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 (men), 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	_	4 continued	cc
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 continued	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 continued	nsubj
4	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continued	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 demise	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 demise	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 man	case
13	demise	demise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 opened	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 opened	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bags	det
17	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 opened	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 opened	aux:pass
19	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	20 opened	advmod
20	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 demise	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 continued	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 contain	mark
25	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 found	xcomp
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 stones	advmod
27	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 contain	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gravel	cc
29	gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stones	conj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	men = man		day	thus property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	past · passive		the bags		greedily property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	find	past	men = man not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	contain	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	stones and gravel			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stone=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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