Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 5
As soon as the cat received the ring, she started back with the dog to go and tell their master the good tidings.
Who acts: cat · What happens: receive, start back, go, tell · To what, where: ring, master · 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 started | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 received | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | nsubj |
| 6 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 started | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 received | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 started | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 dog | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dog | det |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 started | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tell | cc |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 master | nmod:poss |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tidings | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tidings | amod |
| 24 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tell | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the cat | the ring | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start back | past | cat | with the dog; soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with dog=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | cat not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | cat not said here | rats's master | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent master=Recipient tiding=Topic |
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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