Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 8

The throat became swollen, he could not take food, his suffering was terrible.

Who acts: throat, suffering · What happens: become, not take, be, suffer · To what, where: food

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (throat, suffering), 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	2 throat	det
2	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 take	advmod
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 became	conj
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 terrible	punct
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 suffering	nmod:poss
13	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 terrible	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 terrible	cop
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 take	parataxis
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	the throat		swollen property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	not take	could	throat	food		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	is	past	throat's suffering		terrible property	tree rules
4	suffer		throat			nom suffering «state 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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