Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 18

All these collections, which reached Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, became very popular, and were used by monks and friars to enliven their sermons as EXEMPLA.

Who acts: monks · What happens: reach, become, use, enliven · To what, where: collections, sermons

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 (monks), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 collections	det:predet
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 collections	det
3	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reached	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	13 centuries	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 centuries	det
10	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 centuries	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thirteenth	cc
12	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 twelfth	conj
13	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reached	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	conj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 popular	advmod
17	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 became	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 used	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 used	cc
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 used	aux:pass
21	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reached	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 monks	case
23	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 used	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 friars	cc
25	friars	friar	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 monks	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 enliven	mark
27	enliven	enliven	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 used	advcl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sermons	nmod:poss
29	sermons	sermon	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 enliven	obj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 EXEMPLA	case
31	EXEMPLA	EXEMPLA	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 enliven	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past		all collections	century		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=Theme
2	become	past				popular property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	use	past · passive	monks and friars				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	enliven	to-infinitive	monks and friars not said here	collections's sermons		as EXEMPLA	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sermon=Experiencer

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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