Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 101
The god called his Ganas, who came to the front blinking, and fearing the anger of their master.
Who acts: god, Ganas, master · What happens: call, come, fear, anger · To what, where: front blinking, anger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (god, Ganas, master), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 god | det |
| 2 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Ganas | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Ganas | Ganas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Ganas | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 blinking | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blinking | det |
| 11 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blinking | amod |
| 12 | blinking | blinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fearing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fearing | cc |
| 15 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 came | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 anger | det |
| 17 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fearing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 master | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 anger | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the god | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | god's Ganas | the front blinking | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to blinking=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fear | gerund | god's Ganas not said here | the anger of corpses's master | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anger=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | anger | corpses's master | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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