Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 11

As he was looking about, the Malee's wife saw him, and ran out of the house and said, "My dear boy, who are you that dare venture to this dangerous place?"

Who acts: Balna, wife, dear boy · What happens: look, see, run, say, be · To what, where: Balna, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balna, wife, dear boy), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 looking	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 saw	advcl
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Malee	det
8	Malee	Malee	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Malee	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ran	cc
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 house	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 boy	punct
24	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 boy	nmod:poss
25	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boy	amod
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 venture	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 venture	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 venture	cop
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 venture	nsubj
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 dare	det
32	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 venture	nsubj
33	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 boy	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 place	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 place	det
36	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 place	amod
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 venture	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 boy	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	Balna			about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	the Malee's wife	Balna			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	run	past	the Malee's wife not said here		the house		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory
4	say speech: ask	past	the Malee's wife not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	My dear boy			to this dangerous place; venture property	tree rules

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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