Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 88

In a paper read before the Folk-Lore Congress of 1891, and reprinted in the _Transactions_, pp.

What happens: read, reprint · To what, where: paper, Transactions

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	In	in	ADP	_	3 paper	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 paper	det
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 paper	acl
5	before	before	ADP	_	10 Congress	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Congress	det
7	Folk	Folk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Congress	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Folk	punct
9	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Congress	compound
10	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl:agent
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 1891	case
12	1891	1891	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 Congress	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reprinted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 reprinted	cc
15	reprinted	reprint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 paper	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 Transactions	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Transactions	det
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 Transactions	punct
19	Transactions	Transaction	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 reprinted	obl
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 reprinted	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pp	punct
22	pp	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paper	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	participle		a paper and pp not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reprint	participle		a paper and pp not said here		the Transactions			tree rules

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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