Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 51

But when he looked in on his Princess, just to prevent her becoming anxious about him, she asked to see the potsherd as usual, and substituted another, on which was written, "Yet again give this lad all he requires, for his blood shall be as your blood!"

Who acts: lad, Princess, blood · What happens: look in, prevent, become, ask, see, substitute · To what, where: Princess, potsherd, another, lad · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lad, Princess, blood), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 prevent	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prevent	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 looked	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Princess	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Princess	nmod:poss
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 prevent	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 prevent	mark
12	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 prevent	obj
14	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 prevent	advcl
15	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 becoming	xcomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 anxious	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prevent	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 potsherd	det
24	potsherd	potsherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 usual	case
26	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 see	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 substituted	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 substituted	cc
29	substituted	substitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 asked	conj
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 substituted	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 written	punct
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 written	obl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 written	aux:pass
35	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 substituted	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 give	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 give	punct
38	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	40 give	cc
39	again	again	ADV	_	40 give	advmod
40	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 written	conj
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 lad	det
42	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 give	obj
43	all	all	ADV	_	45 requires	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 requires	nsubj
45	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 give	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 blood	punct
47	for	for	ADP	_	54 blood	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 blood	nmod:poss
49	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 blood	nsubj
50	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 blood	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 blood	cop
52	as	as	ADP	_	54 blood	case
53	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 blood	nmod:poss
54	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 requires	conj
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 prevent	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look in	past	lad			on lad's Princess	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on princess=Theme
2	prevent	to-infinitive		Princess			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme
3	become	gerund				anxious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	Princess				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	the potsherd		as usual	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer potsherd=Stimulus as usual=Attribute
6	substitute	past	Princess not said here	another			vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme another=Location
7	write	past · passive	Princess not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination
8	give in a quote	infinitive	Princess not said here	this lad	again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme
9	require in a quote	present	lad			all property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
10	is in a quote	shall	lad's blood			for your blood	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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