Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 26

At this he was very angry, and sent to have the woman seized and brought before him.

Who acts: this, woman · What happens: be, send, have, seize, bring

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, woman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 angry	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sent	cc
9	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 angry	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 have	mark
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seized	nsubj
14	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 have	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seized	conj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this		angry property	tree rules
2	send	participle	this not said here			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	to-infinitive	this not said here			tree rules
4	seize	past	the woman			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	bring	past	the woman not said here	before Prudhan		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination

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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