Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 82

Then he thought, "It is from fear of me that these men speak only good things, and not evil things," and he sought among those people who lived outside the palace.

Who acts: hall, praise, men, people · What happens: think, be, speak, seek, live · To what, where: fear, good things, palace · 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 (hall, praise, men, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 thought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fear	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fear	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fear	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fear	cop
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 fear	case
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fear	nmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 speak	mark
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 men	det
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 speak	nsubj
15	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fear	acl
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 things	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 speak	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 things	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 things	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 things	advmod
22	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 things	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 things	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sought	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sought	nsubj
28	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
29	among	among	ADP	_	31 people	case
30	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 people	det
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sought	obl
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 lived	nsubj
33	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 people	acl:relcl
34	outside	outside	ADP	_	36 palace	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 palace	det
36	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lived	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	hall			then		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	praise		fear		of hall	tree rules
3	speak speech: other in a quote	present	this men	good things				tree rules
4	seek	past	hall				among that people	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent among people=Location
5	live	past	that people		the palace			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside palace=Location

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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