Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 112
Fancy two grown men being so frightened by an old ayah or a fakir!
What happens: grow, be · To what, where: Fancy two grown men
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: 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 | Fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 frightened | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 men | acl:relcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 ayah | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ayah | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ayah | amod |
| 11 | ayah | ayah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frightened | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 fakir | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fakir | det |
| 14 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ayah | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | gerund | Fancy two grown men not said here | by a old ayah or a fakir; frighten 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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