Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 37
His introduction consisted of over 200 monographs on the spread of Indian tales to Europe.
Who acts: introduction, literature · What happens: consist, introduce, spread · To what, where: spread, Indian tales
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 (introduction, literature), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 introduction | nmod:poss |
| 2 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consisted | nsubj |
| 3 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 monographs | case |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 200 | advmod |
| 6 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 monographs | nummod |
| 7 | monographs | monograph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 consisted | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 spread | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spread | det |
| 10 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consisted | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tales | case |
| 12 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tales | amod |
| 13 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spread | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Europe | case |
| 15 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 tales | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | literature's introduction | the spread of Indian tales to Europe | of 200 monographs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | introduce | literature | nom introduction «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | spread | Indian tales to Europe | nom spread «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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