Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 126

He was powerless to eat the man, but asked him: "Why is it, young sir, that you are not frightened to death?"

Who acts: man, road · What happens: be, eat, ask, not frighten · To what, where: man, young sir · Speech: someone speaks here

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, road), 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	3 powerless	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 powerless	cop
3	powerless	powerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 powerless	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 powerless	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 sir	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sir	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 sir	advmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sir	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sir	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sir	punct
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sir	amod
19	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 powerless	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 frightened	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 frightened	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 frightened	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 frightened	aux:pass
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 frightened	advmod
25	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sir	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 death	case
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 frightened	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 frightened	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sir	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	man			powerless property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	man not said here	the man			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	past	man not said here		man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present	road	young sir			tree rules
5	not frighten in a quote	present · passive		man		to death	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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