Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 128

Then gasping, and with tears trickling from his eyes, and trembling with the fear of death, the crane beseeched him, saying, "O my Lord!

Who acts: crane · What happens: gasp, trickle, tremble, beseeche, say, fear · To what, where: eyes, Bodisat, Lord, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crane), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 gasping	advmod
2	gasping	gasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 beseeched	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trickling	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 trickling	cc
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 tears	case
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trickling	obl
7	trickling	trickle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gasping	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trickling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trembling	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 trembling	cc
13	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gasping	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 fear	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fear	det
16	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trembling	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 death	case
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fear	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beseeched	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crane	det
21	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beseeched	nsubj
22	beseeched	beseeche	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 beseeched	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saying	punct
25	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 beseeched	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Lord	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Lord	punct
28	O	o	INTJ	_	30 Lord	discourse
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Lord	nmod:poss
30	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 saying	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 beseeched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gasp	gerund	the crane not said here			then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	trickle	gerund	the crane not said here		Bodisat's eyes		with tears	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from eye=Source
3	tremble	gerund	the crane not said here				with the fear of death	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beseeche	past	the crane	Bodisat				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	gerund	the crane not said here	my Lord				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	fear			death				nom fear «feeling 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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