Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 137
All of a sudden the tiger-king started from the wood, seized the king, and vanished.
Who acts: All · What happens: start, seize, vanish · To what, where: wood, king
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 started | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 6 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tiger | punct |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 All | nmod |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 started | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vanished | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 vanished | cc |
| 19 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | All | the wood | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | the king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||||
| 3 | vanish | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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