Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 36
The cat waited till it was quite dark, and then climbed the tree, killed the kite, and recovered the ring. "
Who acts: cat, bird · What happens: wait, be, climb, kill, recover · To what, where: tree, kite, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 dark | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dark | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dark | cop |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 dark | advmod |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waited | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 climbed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 climbed | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 climbed | advmod |
| 12 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 climbed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 climbed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kite | det |
| 18 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recovered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 recovered | cc |
| 21 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ring | det |
| 23 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 recovered | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the cat | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | bird | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb | past | the tree | then | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | the kite | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kite=Theme | |||||
| 5 | recover | past | the cat not said here | the ring | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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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