Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 26

He never used to be afraid of me; and he has seen me so many, many times."

Who acts: Rakshas · What happens: not use, be, see · To what, where: me

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 used	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 used	advmod
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 afraid	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 used	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seen	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 used	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 seen	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 many	advmod
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 times	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 times	punct
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 times	amod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seen	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not use	past	Rakshas				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	Rakshas not said here			of me; afraid property	tree rules
3	see	present · perfect	Rakshas	me	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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