Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 112
The tiger consented, and the Brahman began the whole story over again, not missing a single detail, and spinning as long a yarn as possible.
Who acts: tiger, Brahman · What happens: consent, begin, not miss, spin · To what, where: whole story, single detail, yarn
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 (tiger, Brahman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tiger | det |
| 2 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Brahman | det |
| 7 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | amod |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 again | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 began | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 missing | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 missing | advmod |
| 16 | missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 began | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 detail | det |
| 18 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 detail | amod |
| 19 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 missing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spinning | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spinning | cc |
| 22 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 missing | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 yarn | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 yarn | det |
| 26 | yarn | yarn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spinning | obl |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 possible | mark |
| 28 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 spinning | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the tiger | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Brahman | the whole story | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | not miss | gerund | the Brahman not said here | a single detail | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detail=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | spin | gerund | the Brahman not said here | a yarn | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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