Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 128
Now one day he set off to visit his Granny, and was jumping with joy to think of all the good things he should get from her, when who should he meet but a Jackal, who looked at the tender young morsel and said: "Lambikin!
Who acts: wee, Jackal · What happens: set off, visit, jump, think, get, meet · To what, where: Granny, good things, Lambikin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wee, Jackal), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 visit | mark |
| 8 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Granny | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 visit | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 jumping | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 jumping | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 jumping | aux |
| 14 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 set | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jumping | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 think | mark |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 jumping | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 things | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 things | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 think | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 get | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 get | aux |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 things | acl:relcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 get | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 meet | punct |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 34 meet | mark |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 meet | nsubj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 meet | aux |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 meet | nsubj |
| 34 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 get | conj |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 looked | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 Jackal | det |
| 37 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 looked | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 looked | punct |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 looked | nsubj |
| 40 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 morsel | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 morsel | det |
| 43 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 morsel | amod |
| 44 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 morsel | amod |
| 45 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 looked | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 said | cc |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 50 Lambikin | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 Lambikin | punct |
| 50 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 said | obl |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | wee | now; day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | wee not said here | wee's Granny | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent granny=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | jump | past · progressive | wee not said here | with joy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | wee not said here | of all good things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | get | should | wee | all good things not said here | from Granny | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from she=Source | |||
| 6 | meet | should | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | look | past | a Jackal | at the tender young morsel | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at morsel=Theme | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | wee not said here | Lambikin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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