Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 41

Few of the tales in the Indian literary collections could be dignified by the name of fairy tales, and it was clear that if these were to be traced to India, an examination of the contemporary folk-tales of the peninsula would have to be attempted.

Who acts: name, examination, peninsula · What happens: dignify, be, trace, have, attempt, name · To what, where: Few, these, India, fairy tales, contemporary folk tales · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (name, examination, peninsula), 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	Few	few	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dignified	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 tales	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tales	det
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Few	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 collections	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 collections	det
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 collections	amod
8	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 collections	amod
9	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tales	nmod
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 dignified	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 dignified	aux:pass
12	dignified	dignify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 name	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 name	det
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dignified	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tales	case
17	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tales	compound
18	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 name	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 clear	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 clear	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 clear	expl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 clear	cop
23	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dignified	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 have	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 traced	mark
26	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 traced	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 traced	aux:pass
28	to	to	PART	_	30 traced	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 traced	aux:pass
30	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 have	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 India	case
32	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 have	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 examination	punct
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 examination	det
35	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 have	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	41 tales	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tales	det
38	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tales	amod
39	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tales	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 folk	punct
41	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 examination	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 peninsula	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 peninsula	det
44	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tales	nmod
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 have	aux
46	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 clear	csubj
47	to	to	PART	_	49 attempted	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 attempted	aux:pass
49	attempted	attempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 have	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dignified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	dignify	could · passive	the name of fairy tales	Few of the tales in the Indian literary collections			tree rules
2	is	past	the name of fairy tales not said here			clear property	tree rules
3	trace a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		these			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	have	would	a examination of the contemporary folk tales of the peninsula		India		tree rules
5	attempt	to-infinitive · passive	a examination of the contemporary folk tales of the peninsula not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»
6	name			fairy tales			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	examine			the contemporary folk tales of the peninsula			nom examination «act transitive»: of=patient
8	tell		the peninsula				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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