--- title: Then gasping, and with tears trickling from his eyes, and trembling… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then gasping, and with tears trickling from his eyes, and trembling with the fear of death, the crane beseeched him, saying, "O my Lord! Who acts: crane. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/128/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/) / 128 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 128 Then gasping, and with tears trickling from his eyes, and trembling with the fear of death, the crane beseeched him, saying, "O my Lord! **Who acts:** crane · **What happens:** gasp, trickle, tremble, beseeche, say, fear · **To what, where:** eyes, Bodisat, Lord, death · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crane), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:11:128 # text = Then gasping, and with tears trickling from his eyes, and trembling with the fear of death, the crane beseeched him, saying, "O my Lord! 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 gasping gasp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 7 trickling trickle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 trembling tremble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 beseeched beseeche VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 O o INTJ UH _ 30 discourse _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gasp** | gerund | the crane *not said here* | | | | then | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **trickle** | gerund | the crane *not said here* | | | Bodisat's eyes | | with tears | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from eye=Source | | 3 | **tremble** | gerund | the crane *not said here* | | | | | with the fear of death | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **beseeche** | past | the crane | Bodisat | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the crane *not said here* | my Lord | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fear** | | | death | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/127/) - next →: [sentence 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/129/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/)