Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 43

One day, when I had come out of the ground to drink the air, some people seized me, and would have slain me had you not most opportunely arrived to my rescue.

Who acts: I, people, you, my · What happens: come out, drink, seize, slay, have, not arrive · To what, where: air, me, rescue

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people, you, my), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 come	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 drink	mark
13	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drink	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seized	punct
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seized	nsubj
19	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 seized	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slain	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 slain	cc
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 slain	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 slain	aux
25	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 seized	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 slain	obj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 slain	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 arrived	nsubj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 arrived	advmod
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 opportunely	advmod
31	opportunely	opportunely	ADV	_	32 arrived	advmod
32	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 rescue	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 rescue	nmod:poss
35	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 arrived	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past · perfect	I			day	of the ground; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	drink	to-infinitive	I not said here	the air				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
3	seize	past	some people	me				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	slay	would · perfect	some people not said here	me				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	have	past	some people not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not arrive	past	you		my rescue		opportunely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location
7	rescue		my					nom rescue «act transitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/16/43/