Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 135

Consequently, when the procession poured forth from the hole squealing and jumping in honour of the occasion, it immediately spotted the bridegroom and pounced down on him. "

Who acts: procession · What happens: pour, jump, spot, pounce down, honour · To what, where: hole squealing, honour, bridegroom, occasion

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 (procession), 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	Consequently	consequently	ADV	_	6 poured	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Consequently	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 poured	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 procession	det
5	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poured	nsubj
6	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	forth	forth	ADV	_	6 poured	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 squealing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 squealing	det
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squealing	compound
11	squealing	squealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poured	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 jumping	cc
13	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 squealing	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 honour	case
15	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jumping	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 occasion	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 occasion	det
18	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 honour	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spotted	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spotted	nsubj
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	22 spotted	advmod
22	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 poured	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bridegroom	det
24	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spotted	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pounced	cc
26	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spotted	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 pounced	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pounced	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 poured	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pour	past	the procession			the hole squealing	consequently, forth property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from squealing=Source
2	jump	gerund	the procession not said here			honour of the occasion		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honour=Trajectory
3	spot	past	procession		the bridegroom		immediately property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bridegroom=Destination
4	pounce down	past	procession not said here				on bridegroom	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory
5	honour			the occasion				nom honour «state 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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