Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 89

Out popped the tiger, and, seizing the poor man, cried, "What a fool you are!

What happens: pop, seize, cry · To what, where: tiger, poor man

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: 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	Out	out	ADV	_	2 popped	advmod
2	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tiger	det
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 popped	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seizing	punct
8	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 cried	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seizing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seizing	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 popped	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 What	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 What	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 cried	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fool	det
18	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 are	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fool	acl:relcl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 popped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pop	past	the tiger	out property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Patient
2	seize	gerund	the poor man		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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.

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