Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 91

He strode into the audience hall, where his father sat trembling, and saluted him with all reverence; but Raja Salabhan, in fear of his life, turned his back hastily and said never a word in reply.

Who acts: Prince, father · What happens: stride, sit, tremble, salute, turn, say · To what, where: Raja, audience hall, Prince, back, word, reply · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prince, father), 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 strode	nsubj
2	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 hall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
5	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hall	compound
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strode	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sat	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 strode	parataxis
12	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sat	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saluted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saluted	cc
15	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saluted	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 reverence	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 reverence	det
19	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saluted	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 Raja	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 Raja	cc
22	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 strode	obl
23	Salabhan	Salabhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Raja	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fear	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 fear	case
26	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Raja	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 life	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fear	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turned	punct
31	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 strode	parataxis
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 back	nmod:poss
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turned	obj
34	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	31 turned	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 turned	conj
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 word	advmod
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 word	det
39	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 said	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 reply	case
41	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 word	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 strode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stride	past	Prince	Raja	the audience hall		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hall=Destination
2	sit	past	Prince's father				tree rules
3	tremble	gerund	Prince's father not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	salute	past	Prince's father not said here	Prince		with all reverence	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
5	turn	past		Prince's back		hastily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past		a word	reply		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in reply=Manner
7	fear			Prince's life			nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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