Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 22
On this the cat came out and jumped on to the bird, and threatened to kill it if it did not recover the lost ring.
Who acts: cat, bird · What happens: come out, jump on, threaten, kill, not recover, lose · To what, where: bird, lost 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 (cat, bird), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 cat | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 cat | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 jumped | cc |
| 8 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 jumped | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threatened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threatened | cc |
| 15 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 kill | mark |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 threatened | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | obj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 recover | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 recover | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 recover | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 recover | advmod |
| 23 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kill | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ring | det |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 ring | amod |
| 26 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recover | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | this cat | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | jump on | past | this cat not said here | to the bird result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bird=Result | ||||
| 3 | threaten | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | bird | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not recover a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | bird | the lost ring | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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