Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 84
"I have had a thorn in my foot for twelve years," answered the tiger, "and it hurts me so; that is why I roar."
Who acts: tiger, that · What happens: have, answer, hurt, be, roar · To what, where: thorn, foot, tiger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiger, that), 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 | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | aux |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 answered | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thorn | det |
| 6 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 foot | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 foot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thorn | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tiger | det |
| 17 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hurts | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hurts | nsubj |
| 22 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 answered | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 hurts | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 hurts | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 why | punct |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 why | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 why | cop |
| 28 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 answered | parataxis |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 roar | nsubj |
| 30 | roar | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 why | advcl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 roar | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 roar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present · perfect | the tiger = tiger | a thorn | my foot | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Patient | ||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the tiger | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hurt in a quote | present | tiger | the tiger = tiger | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | roar in a quote | present | the tiger = tiger | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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