Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 96

Thus, we find the incident of an "external soul" (Life Index, Captain Temple very appropriately named it) in Asbjornsen's _Norse Tales_ and in Miss Frere's _Old Deccan Days_ (see Notes on _Punchkin_).

Who acts: we, Life Index · What happens: find, name, see · To what, where: incident, soul, Norse Tales, Notes, Punchkin

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 (we, Life Index), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 incident	det
6	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 soul	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 soul	det
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 soul	punct
10	external	external	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 soul	amod
11	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 incident	nmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 soul	punct
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 Index	punct
14	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Index	compound
15	Index	Index	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 soul	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Temple	punct
17	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Temple	compound
18	Temple	Temple	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Index	conj
19	very	very	ADV	_	21 named	advmod
20	appropriately	appropriately	ADV	_	21 named	advmod
21	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Index	acl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 named	obj
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 named	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	29 Tales	case
25	Asbjornsen	Asbjornsen	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Tales	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Asbjornsen	case
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 Tales	punct
28	Norse	norse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Tales	amod
29	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 named	obl
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 Tales	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Miss	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 Miss	case
33	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Tales	conj
34	Frere	Frere	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Miss	flat
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Frere	case
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	39 Days	punct
37	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Days	amod
38	Deccan	Deccan	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Days	compound
39	Days	Day	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 Miss	appos
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 find	discourse
41	(	(	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
42	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 find	parataxis
43	Notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 see	obj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 Punchkin	case
45	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 on	punct
46	Punchkin	Punchkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Notes	nmod
47	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
48	)	)	PUNCT	_	42 see	punct
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	we	the incident of a external soul		thus property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Topic
2	name	participle	Life Index and Captain Temple not said here	soul	Asbjornsen's Norse Tales and Miss	appropriately property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	see	infinitive		Notes	Punchkin		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus

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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