Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 38

He wrote in 1859, before the great outburst of folk-tale collection in Europe, and he had not thus adequate materials to go about in determining the extent of Indian influence on the popular mind of Europe.

Who acts: introduction, adequate materials · What happens: write, have, go about, determine, extend, mind · To what, where: 1859, adequate materials, extent, popular mind, Indian influence, 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 (introduction, adequate materials), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 1859	case
4	1859	1859	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 wrote	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 outburst	punct
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 outburst	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 outburst	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 outburst	amod
9	outburst	outburst	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 collection	case
11	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 collection	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 folk	punct
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 collection	compound
14	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 outburst	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Europe	case
16	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 collection	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 materials	advmod
22	thus	thus	ADV	_	24 materials	advmod
23	adequate	adequate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 materials	amod
24	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
27	about	about	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 determining	mark
29	determining	determine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 go	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 extent	det
31	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 determining	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 influence	case
33	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 influence	amod
34	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 extent	nmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 mind	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mind	det
37	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 mind	amod
38	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 determining	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Europe	case
40	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 mind	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	introduction		1859	before the great outburst of folk tale collection in Europe		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1859=Destination
2	have	past	introduction	adequate materials				tree rules
3	go about	to-infinitive	adequate materials not said here				about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	determine	gerund	adequate materials not said here	the extent of Indian influence	the popular mind of Europe			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extent=Topic
5	extend			Indian influence				nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient
6	mind			Europe				nom mind «cognition 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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