Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 85
Let me out of this cage, oh pious one!" cried the tiger.
Who acts: you, pious one · What happens: let, cry · To what, where: me, cage, tiger · Speech: someone speaks here
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, pious one), 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 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 cage | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cage | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 cage | det |
| 6 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 8 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 one | discourse |
| 9 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tiger | det |
| 15 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | this cage | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | pious one | the tiger | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/85/