Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 41

These creatures got very fond of him, and would follow him about during the day, and sleep by him at night; the cat used to sleep at his feet, the dog at his head, and the snake over his body, with its head hanging on one side and its tail on the other.

Who acts: creatures, head · What happens: get, follow, sleep, use, hang · To what, where: cat, man, feet, one side

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 (creatures, head), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 creatures	det
2	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fond	advmod
5	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fond	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 follow	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 follow	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 follow	aux
11	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 follow	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	16 day	case
14	during	during	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 follow	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sleep	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sleep	cc
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 follow	conj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sleep	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sleep	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cat	det
26	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
27	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 cat	acl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sleep	mark
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 used	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 feet	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 feet	nmod:poss
32	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sleep	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dog	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 dog	det
35	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 feet	appos
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 head	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dog	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 snake	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 snake	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 snake	det
42	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
43	over	over	ADP	_	45 body	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 body	nmod:poss
45	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 snake	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 head	punct
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 head	case
48	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 head	nmod:poss
49	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	parataxis
50	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 head	acl
51	on	on	ADP	_	53 side	case
52	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 side	nummod
53	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hanging	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 tail	cc
55	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 tail	nmod:poss
56	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 side	conj
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 other	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 other	det
59	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 hanging	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	this creatures	the cat			the snake over man's body obl; fond property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
2	follow	would		man		day		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	sleep	infinitive				night	by man	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	use	participle		the cat not said here				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	to-infinitive			man's feet			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hang	gerund	dog's head not said here		one side and dog's tail		on the other	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=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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