Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 23

I have, however, to some extent handicapped myself, as I have avoided giving again the Indian versions of stories already given in _English Fairy Tales_ or _Celtic Fairy Tales_.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, handicap, avoid, give · To what, where: myself, Indian versions, English Fairy Tales

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 handicapped	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 handicapped	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 extent	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 extent	det
8	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 handicapped	obl
9	handicapped	handicap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
10	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 handicapped	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 avoided	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 avoided	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 avoided	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 avoided	aux
15	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 handicapped	conj
16	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 avoided	xcomp
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 giving	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 versions	det
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 versions	amod
20	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 giving	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 stories	case
22	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 versions	nmod
23	already	already	ADV	_	24 given	advmod
24	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 versions	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 Tales	case
26	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 English	compound
27	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Tales	compound
28	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Tales	compound
29	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 given	obl
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	29 Tales	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 Tales	cc
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 Tales	punct
33	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Tales	amod
34	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Tales	compound
35	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 Tales	conj
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 Tales	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	handicap	past		myself			to some extent; however property	tree rules
3	avoid	present · perfect	I					vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	give	gerund	I not said here	the Indian versions of stories		again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme
5	give	participle		the Indian versions of stories not said here	English Fairy Tales or Celtic Fairy Tales			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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