Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 20

The cat got inside the lamb and lay down, telling the dog to go away a little distance and keep quiet.

Who acts: cat · What happens: get, lay down, tell, go away, keep · To what, where: dog, little distance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 lamb	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lamb	det
6	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lay	cc
8	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 got	conj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 lay	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 telling	punct
11	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 lay	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 telling	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 telling	xcomp
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 distance	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 distance	amod
19	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 keep	cc
21	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
22	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 keep	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	the cat			inside the lamb	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	lay down	infinitive	the cat not said here				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the cat not said here		the dog		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive	the cat not said here	a little distance		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	infinitive	the cat not said here			quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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