Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 115
So the crab caught hold of his neck with his claws as securely as with a pair of blacksmith's pincers, and called out, "Off with you, now!"
Who acts: crab · What happens: catch, call out, hold · To what, where: hold, neck
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 (crab), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 caught | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crab | det |
| 3 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 claws | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 claws | nmod:poss |
| 11 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 caught | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 securely | advmod |
| 13 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 17 pair | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 pair | case |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 pair | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pair | det |
| 17 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pincers | case |
| 19 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pincers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 blacksmith | case |
| 21 | pincers | pincer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pair | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 called | cc |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 caught | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 called | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Off | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Off | punct |
| 28 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 24 called | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 Off | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 now | punct |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 Off | advmod |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the crab | hold of crab's neck | with crab's claws; as a pair of blacksmith's pincers | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | hold | crab's neck | nom hold «act 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.
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