Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 88
Now when the tiger sobbed and sighed and wept and swore, the pious Brahman's heart softened, and at last he consented to open the door of the cage.
Who acts: tiger, heart · What happens: sob, sigh, weep, swear, soften, consent · To what, where: last, door
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, heart), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sobbed | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 sobbed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tiger | det |
| 4 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sobbed | nsubj |
| 5 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sighed | cc |
| 7 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sobbed | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wept | cc |
| 9 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sighed | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 swore | cc |
| 11 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sobbed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 softened | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Brahman | det |
| 14 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Brahman | amod |
| 15 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Brahman | case |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 softened | nsubj |
| 18 | softened | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swore | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 consented | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 consented | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 22 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consented | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 consented | nsubj |
| 24 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sobbed | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 open | mark |
| 26 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 consented | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 door | det |
| 28 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 open | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 cage | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cage | det |
| 31 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 door | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob | past | the tiger | now | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sigh | past | the tiger not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | past | the tiger not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | swear | past | the tiger not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | soften | past | the pious Brahman's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | consent | past | heart | last | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | open | to-infinitive | heart not said here | the door of the cage | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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