Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 6
"This is not a lion's roaring, Nor a tiger's, nor a panther's; Dressed in a lion's skin, 'Tis a wretched ass that roars!"
Who acts: This, wretched ass · What happens: not be, dress, roar · To what, where: roaring, skin
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, wretched ass), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 roaring | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 roaring | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 roaring | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 roaring | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roaring | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 lion | case |
| 8 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tiger | punct |
| 10 | Nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 tiger | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tiger | det |
| 12 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roaring | conj |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 tiger | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 panther | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 panther | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 panther | det |
| 17 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roaring | conj |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 panther | case |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Dressed | punct |
| 20 | Dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 roaring | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 skin | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lion | det |
| 23 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 skin | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 lion | case |
| 25 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Dressed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ass | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 ass | punct |
| 28 | Tis | tis | ADP | _ | 31 ass | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 ass | det |
| 30 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ass | amod |
| 31 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roaring | conj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 roars | nsubj |
| 33 | roars | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 ass | acl:relcl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 roaring | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 roaring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | This | a lion's roaring nor a tiger nor a panther and a wretched ass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress in a quote | participle | a lion's roaring nor a tiger nor a panther and a wretched ass not said here | a lion's skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | roar in a quote | present | a wretched ass | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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