Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 20
Being frightened she began to wail and cry to her brother:
Who acts: sister · What happens: frighten, begin, wail, cry · To what, where: brother
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 (sister), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 frightened | aux:pass |
| 2 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 began | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wail | mark |
| 6 | wail | wail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cry | cc |
| 8 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wail | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 brother | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cry | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | gerund · passive | sister not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | sister | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | wail | to-infinitive | sister not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | infinitive | sister not said here | sister's brother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient |
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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