Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 78

The rat caught hold of it, and without discussing he lifted up the poor animal at once.

Who acts: rat · What happens: catch, discuss, lift up, hold · To what, where: hold, poor animal

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 (rat), 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 rat	det
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lifted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lifted	cc
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 discussing	mark
10	discussing	discuss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lifted	advcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lifted	nsubj
12	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 lifted	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 animal	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animal	amod
16	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lifted	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 lifted	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	catch	past	the rat	hold of hold	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	discuss speech: other	gerund	rat not said here		vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lift up	past	rat	the poor animal	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent animal=Theme at once=Destination
4	hold			hold	nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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