Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 32

So much for a short sketch of Indian folk-tales so far as they have been reduced to writing in the native literature.

Who acts: short sketch · What happens: reduce · To what, where: tales, native literature

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 (short sketch), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	6 sketch	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 sketch	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sketch	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sketch	amod
6	sketch	sketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 tales	case
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tales	amod
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tales	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 folk	punct
11	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sketch	nmod
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 reduced	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 reduced	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reduced	nsubj:pass
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 reduced	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 reduced	aux:pass
18	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sketch	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 writing	case
20	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reduced	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 literature	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 literature	det
23	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 literature	amod
24	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reduced	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sketch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	present · perfect · passive	a short sketch of Indian folk tales not said here	tales = tale		the native literature		to writing goal; far property	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to writing=Goal

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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