Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 20

So Majnun went back and broke the fruit off its stalk; and he said to his father, "Come with me to my room while I open it; I am afraid to open it alone, for perhaps I shall find a Rakshas in it that will eat me."

Who acts: Majnun, prince, Rakshas · What happens: go back, break off, say, come, open, be · To what, where: fruit, father, room, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majnun, prince, Rakshas), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 broke	cc
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fruit	det
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	6 broke	compound:prt
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 stalk	nmod:poss
11	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 father	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Come	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Come	punct
21	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 Come	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 room	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 room	nmod:poss
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Come	obl
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 open	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 open	nsubj
29	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Come	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 open	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 afraid	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 afraid	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 afraid	cop
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 open	mark
36	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 afraid	xcomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 open	obj
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	36 open	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 find	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 find	mark
41	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	44 find	advmod
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 find	nsubj
43	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 find	aux
44	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 open	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 Rakshas	det
46	Rakshas	Rakshas	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 eat	nsubj
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 Rakshas	nmod
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 eat	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 eat	aux
51	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 find	ccomp
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 eat	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past	Majnun					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	break off	past	Majnun not said here	the fruit				vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient stalk=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	prince		prince's father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient
4	come in a quote	infinitive	prince not said here			my room	with prince	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
5	open in a quote	present	prince	fruit				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	prince				afraid property	tree rules
7	open in a quote	to-infinitive	prince not said here	fruit			alone property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
8	find in a quote	shall	prince				perhaps property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	eat in a quote	future	a Rakshas in fruit	prince				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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