Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 120

Let me see--the tiger was in the Brahman, and the cage came walking by----no, that's not it, either!

Who acts: you, me, tiger, cage, that · What happens: let, see, be, come, walk, not be · To what, where: me, Brahman, 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, me, tiger, cage), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 Brahman	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tiger	det
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Brahman	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Brahman	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Brahman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Brahman	det
10	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cage	det
14	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
16	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	xcomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	16 walking	fixed
18	----	----	PUNCT	_	24 it	punct
19	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	24 it	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 it	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 it	nsubj
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 it	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 it	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 walking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 either	punct
26	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 came	advmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me			tree rules
2	see	infinitive	me not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the tiger		the Brahman		tree rules
4	come	past	the cage			either property	tree rules
5	walk	gerund	the cage not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not is a	present	that	cage			tree rules

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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