Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 38
Thus thinking, he asked the tiger-king to hold tight to the vessel, which he accordingly did, and he lifted him up slowly.
Who acts: Gangazara · What happens: think, ask, hold, do, lift up · To what, where: tiger king, vessel, 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 (Gangazara), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 thinking | advmod |
| 2 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 asked | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinking | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 7 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 tiger | punct |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hold | mark |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 king | acl |
| 12 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hold | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 vessel | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vessel | det |
| 15 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 did | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 19 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 20 did | advmod |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 vessel | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lifted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lifted | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lifted | nsubj |
| 24 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lifted | obj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 lifted | compound:prt |
| 27 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 24 lifted | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | Gangazara not said here | thus property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Gangazara | the tiger king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | Gangazara not said here | to the vessel; tight property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Gangazara | the vessel | accordingly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | lift up | past | Gangazara | king | slowly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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