Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 4
Terrified with the fear of death, the ass uttered a cry--the bray of an ass!
Who acts: ass · What happens: utter, fear, bray · To what, where: cry, death
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 (ass), 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 | Terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 fear | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fear | det |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Terrified | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fear | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 uttered | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ass | det |
| 9 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uttered | nsubj |
| 10 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Terrified | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cry | det |
| 12 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uttered | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 bray | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bray | det |
| 15 | bray | bray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cry | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ass | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ass | det |
| 18 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bray | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | the ass | a cry | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fear | death | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | bray | a ass | nom bray «event intransitive»: of=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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