Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 97

Yet the latter is a very suspicious source, since Miss Frere derived her tales from a Christian _ayah_ whose family had been in Portuguese Goa for a hundred years.

Who acts: latter, Miss, family, Punchkin · What happens: be, derive, tell · To what, where: suspicious source, tales, Christian _ ayah, Portuguese Goa · 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 (latter, Miss, family, Punchkin), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	8 source	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 latter	det
3	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 source	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 source	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 source	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 suspicious	advmod
7	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 source	amod
8	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 derived	punct
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 derived	mark
11	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 derived	nsubj
12	Frere	Frere	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Miss	flat
13	derived	derive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 source	parataxis
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tales	nmod:poss
15	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 derived	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	20 ayah	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ayah	det
18	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ayah	amod
19	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ayah	compound
20	ayah	ayah	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 derived	obl
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 Goa	punct
22	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 family	nmod:poss
23	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Goa	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Goa	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 Goa	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 Goa	case
27	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Goa	amod
28	Goa	Goa	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ayah	nmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 years	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hundred	det
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 years	nummod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 derived	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 source	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	the latter	a suspicious source			tree rules
2	derive	past	Miss	Punchkin's tales	a Christian _ ayah	year	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent tale=Result from ayah=Material
3	is	past · perfect	Portuguese Goa's family		Portuguese Goa		tree rules
4	tell		Punchkin				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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