Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 127
"Why should I fear, Demon?" replied he. "
Who acts: man · What happens: fear, reply · To what, where: Demon · 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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fear | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 fear | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fear | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fear | nsubj |
| 5 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Demon | punct |
| 7 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fear | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fear | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fear | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear in a quote | should | man | Demon | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer demon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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