Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 90
The tiger saw her coming, and hid the prince in the jungle, so that she should not see him.
Who acts: tiger, wife · What happens: see, come, hide, not see · To what, where: wife, prince, jungle
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tiger | det |
| 2 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hid | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 jungle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 jungle | det |
| 13 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 see | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 see | advmod |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hid | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the tiger | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | wife not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hide | past | the prince | the jungle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Patient in jungle=Location | ||||
| 4 | not see | should | wife | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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