Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 54

He walked on bravely, looking neither to the right or left, till he reached the centre and plucked the tallest ear, but as he turned homewards a thousand sweet voices rose behind him, crying in tenderest accents, "Pluck me too! oh, please pluck me too!"

Who acts: son, thousand sweet voices · What happens: walk on, look, reach, pluck, turn, rise · To what, where: centre, tallest ear, homewards, tenderest accents, thousand sweet voices · 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 (son, thousand sweet voices), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
7	neither	neither	ADV	_	6 looking	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 right	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 right	det
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looking	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
12	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 right	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reached	punct
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 reached	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reached	nsubj
16	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 centre	det
18	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reached	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 plucked	cc
20	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reached	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ear	det
22	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 ear	amod
23	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plucked	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rose	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 rose	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 turned	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 turned	nsubj
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 rose	advcl
29	homewards	homeward	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 turned	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 voices	det
31	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 voices	nummod
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 voices	amod
33	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rose	nsubj
34	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 rose	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 crying	punct
38	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 rose	advcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 accents	case
40	tenderest	tender	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 accents	amod
41	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 crying	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Pluck	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 Pluck	punct
44	Pluck	pluck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 Pluck	obj
46	too	too	ADV	_	44 Pluck	advmod
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 Pluck	punct
48	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 walked	discourse
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 pluck	punct
50	please	please	INTJ	_	51 pluck	discourse
51	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 walked	advcl
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 pluck	obj
53	too	too	ADV	_	51 pluck	advmod
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	51 pluck	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 pluck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	son			bravely property	tree rules
2	look	gerund	son not said here			to the right; neither property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme
3	reach	past	son	the centre			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent centre=Theme
4	pluck	past	son not said here	the tallest ear			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
5	turn	past	son	homewards			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme
6	rise	past	a thousand sweet voices			behind son	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location
7	cry speech: express	gerund	a thousand sweet voices not said here		tenderest accents		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in accent=Location
8	pluck in a quote	infinitive		a thousand sweet voices = voice			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
9	pluck in a quote	infinitive	son not said here	a thousand sweet voices = voice			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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