Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 46

Dread hour!" thought he; "am I to die like the scores of young men before me?"

Who acts: you, I · What happens: dread, think, die, score · To what, where: prince, young men

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Dread	dread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dread	obj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Dread	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Dread	punct
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Dread	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 die	aux
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 die	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 die	mark
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dread	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 scores	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 scores	det
15	scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 die	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 men	case
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 men	amod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 scores	nmod
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 die	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dread	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Dread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dread	imperative	you not said here		hour		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	think speech: other in a quote	past	you not said here	prince			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	die	present	I		before me	like the scores of young men	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	score			young men			nom score «cognition transitive»: of=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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