Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 23

The sixth chapter of Mr. Smeaton's book on them is devoted to "Fireside Stories," and is entirely taken up with adventures of the Hare, all of which can be parallelled from _Uncle Remus_.

Who acts: Fireside Stories · What happens: devote, take up, parallell, adventure · To what, where: sixth chapter, all, Hare

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fireside Stories), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chapter	det
2	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chapter	amod
3	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 devoted	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 book	case
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Smeaton	nmod:desc
6	Smeaton	Smeaton	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 book	compound
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Smeaton	case
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chapter	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 book	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 devoted	aux:pass
12	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	16 Stories	mark
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Stories	punct
15	Fireside	Fireside	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Stories	compound
16	Stories	Story	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 devoted	obl:agent
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Stories	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Stories	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 taken	cc
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 taken	aux:pass
21	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	22 taken	advmod
22	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 devoted	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 taken	compound:prt
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 adventures	case
25	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 taken	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Hare	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Hare	det
28	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 adventures	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 parallelled	punct
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 parallelled	nsubj:pass
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 all	nmod
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 parallelled	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 parallelled	aux:pass
35	parallelled	parallell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 adventures	acl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 Uncle	case
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 from	punct
38	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 parallelled	obl
39	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Uncle	appos
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 parallelled	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 devoted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	devote	present · passive	Fireside Stories	the sixth chapter of Smeaton book on Karens		vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	take up	present · passive	Fireside Stories not said here		with adventures of the Hare; entirely property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»
3	parallell	can · passive		all	from Uncle	tree rules
4	adventure			the Hare		nom adventure «act transitive»: of=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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