Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 119

But one night the little dog disappeared, and in its stead there lay the little old woman who had frightened him so much in the garden; and now Prince Majnun was quite sure she was a Rakshas, or a demon, or some such horrible thing come to eat him; and in his terror he cried out, "What do you want?

Who acts: little dog, Majnun, dog, such horrible thing, Prince, you · What happens: disappear, lie, frighten, be, come, eat · To what, where: little old woman, stead, garden, Rakshas, Majnun, terror · 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 (little dog, Majnun, dog, such horrible thing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 disappeared	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 night	nummod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disappeared	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disappeared	nsubj
7	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lay	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 stead	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 stead	nmod:poss
12	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	obl
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lay	advmod
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disappeared	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 frightened	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 frightened	aux
21	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 woman	acl:relcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 frightened	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADV	_	21 frightened	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 garden	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 garden	det
27	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 frightened	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 sure	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sure	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 sure	advmod
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Majnun	nmod:desc
32	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 sure	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sure	cop
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 sure	advmod
35	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 disappeared	conj
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 Rakshas	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 Rakshas	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 Rakshas	det
39	Rakshas	Rakshas	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 sure	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 demon	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 demon	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 demon	det
43	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Rakshas	appos
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 come	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 come	cc
46	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	49 thing	det
47	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 thing	amod
48	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 thing	amod
49	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 come	nsubj
50	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 sure	parataxis
51	to	to	PART	_	52 eat	mark
52	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 come	xcomp
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 eat	obj
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 cried	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 cried	cc
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 terror	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 terror	nmod:poss
58	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 cried	obl
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 cried	nsubj
60	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disappeared	conj
61	out	out	ADP	_	60 cried	compound:prt
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 want	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 want	punct
64	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	67 want	obj
65	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 want	aux
66	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	67 want	nsubj
67	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 cried	conj
68	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	the little dog			night		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	past	the little dog not said here	the little old woman	bed's stead; there			tree rules
3	frighten	past · perfect · passive		the little old woman	the garden			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result
4	is	past	Majnun Prince			now	sure property	tree rules
5	is a	past	dog	a Rakshas				tree rules
6	come	infinitive	some such horrible thing					tree rules
7	eat	to-infinitive	some such horrible thing not said here	Majnun				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	cry out speech: express	past	Prince		Prince's terror			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location
9	want in a quote	present · do-support	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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