Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 127
And so saying, he gave the crane's neck a grip with his claws, as with a vice.
Who acts: Bodisat · What happens: say, give · To what, where: neck · 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 (Bodisat), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 saying | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 saying | advmod |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crane | det |
| 8 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 neck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 crane | case |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 grip | det |
| 12 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 claws | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 claws | nmod:poss |
| 15 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grip | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vice | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 vice | case |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 vice | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 vice | det |
| 20 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | give | past | Bodisat | the crane's neck | as a vice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent neck=Recipient grip=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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