Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 94

I think we may answer "Yes" as regards droll incidents, the travels of many of which we can trace, and we have the curious result that European children owe their earliest laughter to Hindu wags.

Who acts: I, we, regards, European children · What happens: think, answer, droll, travel, trace, have · To what, where: incidents, curious result, earliest laughter, Hindu wags · 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 (I, we, regards, European children), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 answer	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Yes	punct
7	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 answer	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Yes	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 droll	mark
10	regards	regards	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 droll	nsubj
11	droll	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	advcl
12	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 droll	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 travels	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 travels	det
15	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 which	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 which	amod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 trace	obl
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 trace	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 trace	aux
22	trace	trace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 travels	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 think	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 result	det
28	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 result	amod
29	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 owe	mark
31	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 children	amod
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 owe	nsubj
33	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 result	advcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 laughter	nmod:poss
35	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 laughter	amod
36	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 owe	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 wags	case
38	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wags	amod
39	wags	wag	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 owe	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	may	we			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=Eventuality
3	droll	present	regards	incidents		tree rules
4	travel	present				tree rules
5	trace	can	we			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	have	present	we	the curious result		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Patient
7	owe	present	European children	children's earliest laughter	to Hindu wags goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent laughter=Theme to wag=Goal

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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