Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 140
Meanwhile the dog kept on running to the door, and pulling at his master's shirt and paijamas, as though wishing him to go outside.
Who acts: dog · What happens: keep, run, pull, wish, go · To what, where: dog
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), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 running | mark |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 kept | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 running | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulling | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pulling | cc |
| 12 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 kept | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 shirt | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 master | case |
| 17 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulling | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 paijamas | cc |
| 19 | paijamas | paijama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shirt | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wishing | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 wishing | mark |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 wishing | mark |
| 23 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 pulling | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wishing | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wishing | xcomp |
| 27 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the dog | meanwhile property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the dog not said here | to the door result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | ||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | the dog not said here | at dog's master's shirt and paijamas | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at shirt=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wish | gerund | the dog not said here | dog | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dog not said here | outside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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