Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 108
So they returned to the cage, by which the tiger was waiting for the Brahman, and sharpening his teeth and claws.
Who acts: cattle, tiger · What happens: return, wait, sharpen · To what, where: teeth
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cattle, tiger), 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 | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cage | det |
| 6 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 waiting | punct |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 waiting | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tiger | det |
| 11 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 waiting | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 waiting | aux |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 returned | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Brahman | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Brahman | det |
| 16 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 waiting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sharpening | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sharpening | cc |
| 19 | sharpening | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 waiting | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sharpening | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 claws | cc |
| 23 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 teeth | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | cattle | to the cage result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cage=Result | ||||
| 2 | wait | past · progressive | the tiger | for the Brahman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Location | ||||
| 3 | sharpen | gerund | the tiger not said here | Brahman's teeth and claws | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/108/