Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 83
After a while, Sarkap, seeing Raja Rasalu was winning, called to his rat, but when Dhol Raja saw the kitten he was afraid, and would not go further.
Who acts: Sarkap, Dhol, kitten · What happens: see, win, call, be, not go · To what, where: Raja Rasalu, rat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sarkap, Dhol, kitten), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 winning | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sarkap | punct |
| 5 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 winning | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seeing | punct |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Sarkap | acl |
| 8 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rasalu | compound |
| 9 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seeing | obj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 winning | aux |
| 11 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 winning | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 rat | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 rat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 saw | advmod |
| 20 | Dhol | Dhol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Dhol | flat |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 winning | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kitten | det |
| 24 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 afraid | nsubj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 afraid | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 afraid | cop |
| 27 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 saw | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 go | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 go | cc |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 go | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 go | advmod |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 afraid | conj |
| 33 | further | further | ADV | _ | 32 go | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 winning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Sarkap not said here | Raja Rasalu | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rasalu=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | win | past · progressive | Sarkap | while | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | Rasalu's rat | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rat=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Dhol | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the kitten | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not go | would | the kitten not said here | further property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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