Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 107

Oh, look, look!" he cried, "see what is following you; it is a Rakshas or a demon, and I am sure it is going to eat us."

Who acts: Majnun, fruit, I · What happens: look, cry, see, follow, be, go · To what, where: you, Rakshas, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majnun, fruit, I), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 look	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 look	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 following	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 following	aux
15	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 see	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 following	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Rakshas	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 Rakshas	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Rakshas	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Rakshas	det
21	Rakshas	Rakshas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 demon	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 demon	det
24	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Rakshas	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sure	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sure	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 sure	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sure	cop
29	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 going	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 going	aux
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 sure	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 eat	mark
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 going	xcomp
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 eat	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	look	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Majnun			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	infinitive	Majnun not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	follow	present · progressive		you		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	is a	present	fruit	a Rakshas or a demon		tree rules
7	is	present	I		sure property	tree rules
8	go	present · progressive	fruit			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	eat	to-infinitive	fruit not said here	us		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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