Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 37

Come along," it said to the dog when it reached the ground. "

Who acts: you, bird · What happens: come along, say, reach · To what, where: dog, ground · 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 (you, 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	along	along	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 dog	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 reached	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reached	nsubj
12	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reached	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come along	imperative	you not said here			along property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	bird		the dog		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient
3	reach in a quote	past	bird	the ground			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=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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