Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 115
You were in the cage, and the tiger came walking by----"
Who acts: You, tiger · What happens: be, come, walk · To what, where: cage
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cage | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cage | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cage | det |
| 5 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tiger | det |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cage | conj |
| 11 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 came | xcomp |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 walking | fixed |
| 13 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 5 cage | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | You | the cage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the tiger | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | the tiger not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP 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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