Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 39
The tiger reached the top of the well and felt himself on safe ground.
Who acts: tiger · What happens: reach, feel · To what, where: top, king, safe ground
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 (tiger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tiger | det |
| 2 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 well | det |
| 8 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 felt | cc |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 felt | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ground | amod |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the tiger | the top of the well | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the tiger not said here | king | safe ground | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Location |
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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