Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 58

She was constantly afraid of some evil happening to him--perhaps robbers would slay him, or sickness attack him, and then she would be deprived of him.

Who acts: Gulizar, robbers, sickness · What happens: be, happen, slay, attack, deprive · To what, where: prince, Gulizar

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 (Gulizar, robbers, sickness), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
3	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	4 afraid	advmod
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 evil	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 evil	det
7	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 afraid	obl
8	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 evil	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 happening	obl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 slay	punct
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	15 slay	advmod
13	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 slay	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 slay	aux
15	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 afraid	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 slay	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 attack	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 attack	cc
19	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 attack	nsubj
20	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 slay	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 attack	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 deprived	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 deprived	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 deprived	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 deprived	nsubj:pass
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 deprived	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 deprived	aux:pass
28	deprived	deprive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 afraid	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 deprived	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Gulizar				of some evil; afraid, constantly property	tree rules
2	happen	gerund	Gulizar not said here		prince			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	slay	would	robbers	prince			perhaps property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	attack	present	sickness	prince				vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	deprive	would · passive		Gulizar		then	of prince	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of he=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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