Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 14
Some of the Indian tales reached Europe at the time of the Crusades, either orally or in collections no longer extant.
Who acts: Some · What happens: reach · To what, where: Europe
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tales | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tales | det |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tales | amod |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Crusades | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Crusades | det |
| 13 | Crusades | Crusade | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 time | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 orally | punct |
| 15 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 16 orally | cc:preconj |
| 16 | orally | orally | ADV | _ | 6 reached | advmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 extant | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 collections | case |
| 19 | collections | collection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 extant | obl |
| 20 | no | no | ADV | _ | 21 longer | advmod |
| 21 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 extant | advmod |
| 22 | extant | extant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 orally | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Some | Europe | time | orally property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=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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