Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 71

He was afraid to let them loose for fear they would eat up all the people in his country; and he did not know how to kill them.

Who acts: king, demons · What happens: be, let, lose, eat up, not know, kill · To what, where: demons, people, country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, demons), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 fear	case
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loose	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	aux
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fear	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 eat	compound:prt
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 people	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 country	nmod:poss
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 people	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 know	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 know	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 know	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 know	advmod
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	parataxis
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 kill	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 kill	mark
28	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 know	ccomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kill	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	king			afraid property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	king not said here	demons = demon			tree rules
3	lose	infinitive	demons = demon not said here			for fear	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat up	would	demons = demon	all people	king's country		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
5	not know	past · do-support	king				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	kill	to-infinitive		demons = demon			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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