Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 11

Now the dog was jealous of the cat, so he asked for the ring, and threatened to throw the cat into the water if it did not give it up; whereupon the cat gave up the ring.

Who acts: dog, water, cat · What happens: be, ask, threaten, throw, not give up, give up · To what, where: cat, water, ring

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, water, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 jealous	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jealous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jealous	cop
5	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jealous	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 asked	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jealous	parataxis
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 ring	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ring	det
15	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 threatened	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 threatened	cc
18	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 asked	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 throw	mark
20	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 threatened	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cat	det
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throw	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throw	obl
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 give	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 give	advmod
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 throw	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 give	compound:prt
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 gave	punct
34	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	37 gave	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cat	det
36	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gave	nsubj
37	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jealous	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 gave	compound:prt
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ring	det
40	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gave	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 jealous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dog		now	of the cat; jealous property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	dog			for the ring	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	threaten	participle	dog not said here				tree rules
4	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	dog not said here	the cat		into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer cat=Theme into water=Result
5	not give up a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	water	ring			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
6	give up	past	the cat	the ring		whereupon property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Source

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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