Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 42

When I heard this I was anxious about you.

Who acts: I · What happens: hear, be · To what, where: this · 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 (I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 anxious	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anxious	cop
7	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 anxious	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	this					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is	past	I					about you; anxious property	tree rules

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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