Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 73

A few days afterwards there was a great purchase of fish which came to the rich man's kitchen.

Who acts: few days, great purchase · What happens: be, come · To what, where: great purchase, kitchen

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 (few days, great purchase), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 purchase	nsubj
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 was	advmod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 purchase	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 purchase	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 purchase	amod
9	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 fish	case
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 purchase	nmod
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 purchase	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	19 kitchen	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kitchen	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 man	case
19	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 purchase	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a few days	a great purchase				of fish	tree rules
2	come	past	a great purchase			the rich man's kitchen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kitchen=Initial_Location

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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