Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 134
The cat got to know of this, and at once conceived the idea of seizing the bridegroom and making him render the necessary help.
Who acts: cat, idea, bridegroom · What happens: get, know, conceive, seize, make, render · To what, where: idea, bridegroom, necessary help
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, idea, bridegroom), 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 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 know | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 conceived | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 conceived | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 conceived | obl |
| 12 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 idea | det |
| 14 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conceived | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 seizing | mark |
| 16 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 idea | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bridegroom | det |
| 18 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seizing | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 making | cc |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 seizing | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 making | obj |
| 22 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 making | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 help | det |
| 24 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 help | amod |
| 25 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 render | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the cat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | the cat not said here | of this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | conceive | past | the cat not said here | the idea | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seize | gerund | the idea not said here | the bridegroom | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | gerund | the idea not said here | bridegroom | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | render | infinitive | bridegroom not said here | the necessary help | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=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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