Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 117
We are afraid he will kill us." "
Who acts: We, King · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, King), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 kill | aux |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | ccomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | future | King | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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