Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 131
Then the cat descended the wall of the house, and went and laid down by a rat's hole and pretended she was dead.
Who acts: cat · What happens: descend, go, lay down, pretend, be · To what, where: wall
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 descended | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 descended | nsubj |
| 4 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 descended | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wall | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 descended | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laid | cc |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 went | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 laid | compound:prt |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 hole | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rat | det |
| 18 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hole | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 rat | case |
| 20 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pretended | cc |
| 22 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dead | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dead | cop |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pretended | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | past | the cat | the wall of the house | then | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wall=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | lay down | participle | by a rat's hole | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hole=Destination | |||||
| 4 | pretend | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | cat | dead property | tree rules |
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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