Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 123
Here he is, caught by a Demon like me; yet he will not fear a bit.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, catch, not fear · To what, where: bit
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Demon | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Demon | det |
| 8 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Demon | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 12 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 16 fear | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fear | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fear | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fear | advmod |
| 16 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 caught | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bit | det |
| 18 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fear | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | participle | by a Demon like me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not fear | future | man | a bit | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus |
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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