Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 138
But the old woman fearing the old king’s anger would not take him back.
Who acts: old woman, old king · What happens: fear, not take back, anger · To what, where: anger, king
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, old king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | nsubj |
| 5 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 woman | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 anger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fearing | obj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 take | advmod |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 take | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | the old woman not said here | the old king's anger | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anger=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not take back | would | the old woman | king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | anger | the old king | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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