Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 108
Laili looked at him beseechingly with all her eyes, and trembled with age and eagerness; but this only frightened Majnun the more. "
Who acts: Laili, this · What happens: look, tremble, frighten · To what, where: Majnun
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 (Laili, this), 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 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | beseechingly | beseechingly | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 eyes | det:predet |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trembled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 trembled | cc |
| 12 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looked | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 age | case |
| 14 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trembled | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eagerness | cc |
| 16 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 age | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 frightened | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 frightened | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 frightened | nsubj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 frightened | advmod |
| 21 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 22 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 frightened | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 more | det |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 frightened | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Laili | at Majnun; with Laili's eyes; beseechingly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tremble | participle | Laili not said here | with age and eagerness | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | frighten | past | this | Majnun | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majnun=Experiencer |
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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