Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 3

No Hindu would doubt the fact of animals speaking or of men transformed into plants and animals.

Who acts: Hindu, animals · What happens: doubt, speak, transform · To what, where: fact, men, plants · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hindu, animals), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 Hindu	det
2	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 doubt	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 doubt	aux
4	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fact	det
6	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doubt	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fact	nmod
9	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 animals	acl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 men	cc
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 men	case
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 speaking	conj
13	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 men	acl
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 plants	case
15	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 transformed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 animals	cc
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 plants	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 doubt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	doubt	would	no Hindu	the fact of animals		vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme
2	speak speech: other	gerund	animals not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	transform	participle		men not said here	into plants and animals result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into plant=Result

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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