Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 38

They were really frightful to behold, but, plucking up courage, he whistled a tune as he walked through them, looking neither to the right nor the left.

Who acts: demons, lad · What happens: be, pluck up, whistle, walk, look · To what, where: courage, tune

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demons, lad), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frightful	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightful	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 frightful	advmod
4	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 behold	case
6	behold	behold	INTJ	_	4 frightful	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whistled	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 whistled	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plucking	punct
10	plucking	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 whistled	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 plucking	compound:prt
12	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plucking	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plucking	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 whistled	nsubj
15	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightful	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tune	det
17	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whistled	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 walked	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 walked	nsubj
20	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 whistled	advcl
21	through	through	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 walked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looking	punct
24	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 walked	advcl
25	neither	neither	ADV	_	24 looking	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 right	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 right	det
28	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 looking	obl
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 left	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 left	det
31	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 right	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	demons = demon		frightful property	tree rules
2	pluck up	gerund	lad not said here	courage		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient
3	whistle	past	lad	a tune		tree rules
4	walk	past	lad		through demons = demon	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Trajectory
5	look	gerund	lad not said here		to the right nor the left; neither property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme

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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