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title: She was constantly afraid of some evil happening to him--perhaps rob… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, with its dependenc
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 58

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg7128:28:58
# text = 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.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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