Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 60
O master!" exclaimed the cat and dog, when they saw what he was going to do. "
Who acts: master, pot · What happens: exclaim, see, go, do · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (master, pot), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 master | discourse |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 master | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 master | punct |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dog | cc |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cat | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 going | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | master | the cat and dog | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | pot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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