Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 135
So, being frightened to death, he let go the Bodhisatta, saying:
Who acts: man · What happens: frighten, let, go, say · To what, where: Bodhisatta · 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 frightened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frightened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bodhisatta | det |
| 12 | Bodhisatta | Bodhisatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 go | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | gerund · passive | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | let | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | man not said here | the Bodhisatta | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bodhisatta=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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