Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 42
The dog, now thoroughly ashamed of itself, begged the cat's pardon for all the trouble it had given.
Who acts: dog, cat · What happens: beg, give, pardon · To what, where: pardon · 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 (dog, 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ashamed | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ashamed | advmod |
| 5 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 6 ashamed | advmod |
| 6 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dog | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 itself | case |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 ashamed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dog | punct |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cat | det |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 cat | case |
| 14 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 trouble | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 trouble | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trouble | det |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 given | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | aux |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 trouble | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the dog | the cat's pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | pardon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pardon | the cat | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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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