Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 46
So the Rohu opened his mouth wide, and the jackal jumped down his throat; but he came up very quickly, looking much frightened and saying, "You have a Rakshas in your stomach, and if I don't run away quickly, I am afraid it will eat me."
Who acts: Rohu, jackal, news, You, Rakshas · What happens: open, jump down, come up, look, frighten, say · To what, where: mouth, throat, Rakshas, stomach, news · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rohu, jackal, news, You), 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 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rohu | det |
| 3 | Rohu | Rohu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 opened | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 jumped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 jumped | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 jackal | det |
| 11 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jumped | nsubj |
| 12 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 jumped | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 throat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jumped | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 quickly | advmod |
| 22 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looking | punct |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 came | advcl |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 frightened | advmod |
| 26 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 looking | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 saying | cc |
| 28 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 looking | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 31 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 saying | ccomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 Rakshas | det |
| 34 | Rakshas | Rakshas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 stomach | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 37 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Rakshas | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 afraid | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 afraid | cc |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 run | mark |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 run | nsubj |
| 42 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 run | aux |
| 43 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 run | advmod |
| 44 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 afraid | advcl |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 run | advmod |
| 46 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 44 run | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 run | punct |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 afraid | nsubj |
| 49 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 afraid | cop |
| 50 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 came | advcl |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 eat | nsubj |
| 52 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 eat | aux |
| 53 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 afraid | ccomp |
| 54 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 eat | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 50 afraid | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the Rohu | news's mouth | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | |||
| 2 | jump down | past | the jackal | news's throat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throat=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come up | past | news | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | news not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | frighten | participle | news not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | news not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | have in a quote | present | You | a Rakshas | your stomach | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rakshas=Patient | |||
| 8 | not run away a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | news | away, quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | is in a quote | present | news | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | eat in a quote | future | Rakshas | news | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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