Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 67

This question has taken a new departure with the researches of M. Emanuel Cosquin in his _Contes populaires de Lorraine_ (Paris, 1886, 2^e tirage, 1890), undoubtedly the most important contribution to the scientific study of the folk-tale since the Grimms.

What happens: take, research, study · To what, where: question, Contes populaires, M. Emanuel, folk tale

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: 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 departure	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 departure	amod
7	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 researches	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 researches	det
10	researches	research	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Emanuel	case
12	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Emanuel	compound
13	Emanuel	Emanuel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 researches	nmod
14	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Emanuel	flat
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 populaires	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 populaires	nmod:poss
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 Contes	punct
18	Contes	Conte	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 populaires	compound
19	populaires	populaire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	obl
20	de	de	ADP	_	21 Lorraine	case
21	Lorraine	Lorraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 populaires	nmod
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 Paris	punct
24	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taken	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 1886	punct
26	1886	1886	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 Paris	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 2	punct
28	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 Paris	flat
29	^	^	PUNCT	_	31 tirage	punct
30	e	e	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tirage	amod
31	tirage	tirage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Paris	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 1890	punct
33	1890	1890	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 tirage	appos
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 1890	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 contribution	punct
36	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	_	40 contribution	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 contribution	det
38	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	39 important	advmod
39	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 contribution	amod
40	contribution	contribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Paris	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 study	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 study	det
43	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 study	amod
44	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 contribution	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	49 tale	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 tale	det
47	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 tale	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 folk	punct
49	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 study	nmod
50	since	since	ADP	_	52 Grimms	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Grimms	det
52	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Plur	40 contribution	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect · passive	this question	Emanuel's Contes populaires de Lorraine	with the researches of M. Emanuel	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme departure=Destination
2	research		M. Emanuel			nom research «act transitive»: of=patient
3	study		the folk tale			nom study «act 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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