Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 49

Mr. Ralston introduced the volume with some remarks which dealt too much with sun-myths for present-day taste.

Who acts: Ralston, remarks · What happens: introduce, deal · To what, where: volume, much

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 (Ralston, remarks), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ralston	nmod:desc
2	Ralston	Ralston	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 introduced	nsubj
3	introduced	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 volume	det
5	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 introduced	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 remarks	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 remarks	det
8	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 volume	nmod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 dealt	nsubj
10	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remarks	acl:relcl
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dealt	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 myths	case
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 myths	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sun	punct
16	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 much	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	21 taste	case
18	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 present	punct
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taste	compound
21	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 myths	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 introduced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	introduce	past	Ralston Mr.	the volume				with some remarks	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent volume=Patient with remark=Instrument
2	deal	past	some remarks	much					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme

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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