Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 135

She, being alarmed at Harisarman's knowledge, went at night and applied her ear to the door of that chamber in order to find out what he was about.

Who acts: Harisarman · What happens: alarm, go, apply, find out, be · To what, where: maid, knowledge, ear

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 (Harisarman), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 alarmed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 alarmed	punct
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 alarmed	aux:pass
4	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 knowledge	case
6	Harisarman	Harisarman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 knowledge	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Harisarman	case
8	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alarmed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alarmed	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 applied	cc
14	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ear	nmod:poss
16	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 applied	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 applied	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 chamber	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 chamber	det
22	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 door	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 order	case
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chamber	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 find	mark
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 applied	advcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 find	compound:prt
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 find	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 about	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 about	cop
31	about	about	ADV	_	28 what	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 alarmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alarm	gerund · passive		maid	Harisarman's knowledge			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	go	past				night		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	apply	past		maid's ear			to the door of that chamber in order	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
4	find out	to-infinitive						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	is	past	Harisarman				about 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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