Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 83

He tried in vain to get out through the bars, and rolled and bit with rage and grief when he failed.

Who acts: King · What happens: try, get out, roll, fail · To what, where: vain, bars, bit

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 (King), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vain	case
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	ccomp
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 bars	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bars	det
10	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rolled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rolled	cc
13	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bit	cc
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolled	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 rage	case
17	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolled	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grief	cc
19	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rage	conj
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 failed	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 failed	nsubj
22	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rolled	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	King		vain		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get out not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here		the bars	out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	roll	past		bit		with rage and grief	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme
4	fail	past	King				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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