Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 35

The servant obeyed, and the old woman, fearing lest the elephants should go and push down her hut and kill the prince and his friend, begged the princess to let her depart.

Who acts: servant, elephants, woman · What happens: obey, fear, go, push down, kill, beg · To what, where: old woman, hut, prince, princess, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, elephants, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	nsubj
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 woman	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 woman	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fearing	punct
10	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 obeyed	advcl
11	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	15 go	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 elephants	det
13	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 go	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fearing	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 push	cc
17	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 push	compound:prt
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hut	nmod:poss
20	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 push	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 kill	cc
22	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 prince	det
24	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kill	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 friend	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 friend	nmod:poss
27	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 prince	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 begged	punct
29	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obeyed	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princess	det
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 begged	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 let	mark
33	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 begged	ccomp
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 let	obj
35	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 let	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	obey	past	the servant	the old woman		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fear	gerund	the servant not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	should	the elephants			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	push down	infinitive	the elephants not said here	woman's hut		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Theme
5	kill	infinitive	the elephants not said here	the prince and servant's friend		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
6	beg speech: request	past	the servant not said here		the princess	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic
7	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		woman		tree rules
8	depart	infinitive	woman not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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