Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 48

Her example was followed by Miss Stokes in her _Indian Fairy Tales_ (London, Ellis & White, 1880), who took down her tales from two _ayahs_ and a _Khitmatgar_, all of them Bengalese--the _ayahs_ Hindus, and the man a Mohammedan.

Who acts: Miss, Tales, Souza · What happens: follow, take down, exemplify, tell · To what, where: example, tales, two _ ayahs · 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 (Miss, Tales, Souza), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 example	nmod:poss
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 followed	aux:pass
4	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Miss	case
6	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 followed	obl:agent
7	Stokes	Stokes	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Miss	flat
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 Fairy	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Fairy	nmod:poss
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 Fairy	punct
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Fairy	amod
12	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	obl
13	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 Fairy	nmod
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 Tales	punct
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 London	punct
16	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Tales	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Ellis	punct
18	Ellis	Ellis	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 London	conj
19	&	&	CCONJ	_	20 White	cc
20	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Ellis	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 1880	punct
22	1880	1880	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 Ellis	nmod:unmarked
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 London	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Tales	acl:relcl
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 took	compound:prt
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tales	nmod:poss
29	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 took	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 ayahs	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 ayahs	nummod
32	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ayahs	amod
33	ayahs	ayah	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 took	obl
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Khitmatgar	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 Khitmatgar	det
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Khitmatgar	punct
38	Khitmatgar	Khitmatgar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Tales	nmod
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Khitmatgar	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Bengalese	punct
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 Bengalese	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 all	nmod
44	Bengalese	bengalese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Khitmatgar	conj
45	--	--	PUNCT	_	48 ayahs	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ayahs	det
47	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 ayahs	amod
48	ayahs	ayah	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 Khitmatgar	conj
49	_	_	PUNCT	_	50 Hindus	punct
50	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Plur	48 ayahs	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 man	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 man	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 man	det
54	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Tales	appos
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 Mohammedan	det
56	Mohammedan	Mohammedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 man	appos
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past · passive	Miss	Souza's example		in Souza's Indian Fairy Tales a Khitmatgar and the _ ayahs and Hindus	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in fairy=Trajectory
2	take down	past	Tales a Khitmatgar and the _ ayahs and Hindus	Souza's tales	two _ ayahs		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
3	exemplify		Souza				nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
4	tell		Souza				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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