Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 14

Supposing that she was dead, he rushed to the window and shrieked, "Thieves thieves!

Who acts: merchant, wife · What happens: suppose, be, rush, shriek · To what, where: thieves

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, wife), 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	Supposing	suppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rushed	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 dead	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Supposing	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Supposing	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rushed	nsubj
8	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rushed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shrieked	cc
13	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rushed	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thieves	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 thieves	punct
16	Thieves	thieves	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thieves	det
17	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shrieked	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	gerund	merchant not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	wife		dead property	tree rules
3	rush	past	merchant		to the window result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result
4	shriek	past	merchant not said here	thieves thieves		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thief=Theme

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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