Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 109
"You've been away a long time!" growled the savage beast, "but now let us begin our dinner."
Who acts: You, us · What happens: be, growl, let, begin · To what, where: savage beast, us, dinner
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 (You, us), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 away | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 away | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 away | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 away | cop |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 growled | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 growled | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 11 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beast | det |
| 13 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beast | amod |
| 14 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 growled | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 growled | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 growled | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 let | advmod |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 growled | conj |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 begin | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | You | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | growl | past | the savage beast | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | begin in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | our dinner | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Eventuality |
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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