Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 89

Then the prince took a little knife from his pocket, and cut the thorn out of the tiger's foot; but when he cut, the tiger roared louder than ever--so loud that his wife heard him in the next jungle, and came bounding along to see what was the matter.

Who acts: prince, tiger, wife · What happens: take, cut, roar, hear, come, bound · To what, where: little knife, pocket, thorn, foot, prince, next jungle · 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 (prince, tiger, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knife	amod
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pocket	nmod:poss
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cut	cc
13	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thorn	det
15	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	21 foot	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 foot	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tiger	det
19	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 foot	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 tiger	case
21	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 roared	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 roared	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 cut	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cut	nsubj
26	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 roared	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cut	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tiger	det
29	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 roared	nsubj
30	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
31	louder	loud	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 roared	advmod
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 ever	case
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 louder	obl
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 loud	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 loud	advmod
36	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 roared	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 heard	mark
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wife	nmod:poss
39	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 heard	nsubj
40	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 loud	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 heard	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 jungle	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 jungle	det
44	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 jungle	amod
45	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 heard	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 came	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 came	cc
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
49	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 came	xcomp
50	along	along	ADV	_	49 bounding	advmod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 see	mark
52	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 bounding	advcl
53	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	56 matter	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 matter	cop
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 matter	det
56	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 see	ccomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the prince	a little knife	prince's pocket	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
2	cut	infinitive		the thorn	the tiger's foot			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thorn=Product
3	cut	past	prince					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	roar	past	the tiger				loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	hear	past	prince's wife	prince	the next jungle			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	come	past	the prince not said here					tree rules
7	bound	gerund	the prince not said here				along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	to-infinitive	the prince not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is a	past		the matter				tree rules

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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