Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 87

Now, as soon as Rajah Salabhan heard this, he guessed at once that it was Prince Rasalu come forth before the time, and, mindful of the Jogis' words that he would die if he looked on his son's face before twelve years were past, he did not dare to send his guards to seize the offender and bring him to be judged.

Who acts: Rajah, armour, Prince, Jogis · What happens: hear, guess, be, come, die, look · To what, where: this, Prince, words, guards, offender

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rajah, armour, Prince, Jogis), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 guessed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 guessed	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 heard	mark
6	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
7	Salabhan	Salabhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Rajah	flat
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 guessed	advcl
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 guessed	nsubj
12	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 guessed	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 Prince	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Prince	cop
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
19	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Prince	flat
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 guessed	advcl
21	forth	forth	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	before	before	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mindful	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mindful	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mindful	punct
28	mindful	mindful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 guessed	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 words	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Jogis	det
31	Jogis	Jogis	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 words	nmod:poss
32	'	's	PART	_	31 Jogis	case
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mindful	obl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 die	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 die	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 die	aux
37	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 words	acl
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 looked	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 looked	nsubj
40	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 die	advcl
41	on	on	ADP	_	45 face	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 son	nmod:poss
43	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 face	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 son	case
45	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 looked	obl
46	before	before	ADP	_	48 years	case
47	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 years	nummod
48	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 past	obl
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 past	cop
50	past	past	ADV	_	40 looked	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 dare	punct
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 dare	nsubj
53	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 dare	aux
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 dare	advmod
55	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 mindful	parataxis
56	to	to	PART	_	57 send	mark
57	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 dare	xcomp
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 guards	nmod:poss
59	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 send	obj
60	to	to	PART	_	61 seize	mark
61	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 send	advcl
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 offender	det
63	offender	offender	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 seize	obj
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 bring	cc
65	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 dare	conj
66	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 bring	obj
67	to	to	PART	_	69 judged	mark
68	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	69 judged	aux:pass
69	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 bring	advcl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Rajah	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	guess	past	Rajah			now	soon property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at once=Value
3	is a	past	armour	Prince				tree rules
4	come	present	Prince			time	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	die	would	Prince	the Jogis's words not said here				tree rules
6	look a condition, not said to happen	past	Prince				on Prince's son's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on face=Theme
7	is	past				year	past property	tree rules
8	not dare	past · do-support	Prince					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	not send	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	Prince's guards				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme
10	seize	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the offender				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offender=Theme
11	bring	infinitive	Prince not said here		Prince			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
12	judge	to-infinitive · passive	Prince not said here					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»
13	word		the Jogis					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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