Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 134
By-and-by he met a Vulture, and the Vulture, looking hungrily at the tender morsel before him, said: "Lambikin!
Who acts: Jackal, Vulture · What happens: meet, look, say · To what, where: Vulture · 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 (Jackal, Vulture), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 said | mark |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 met | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Vulture | det |
| 9 | Vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looking | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Vulture | det |
| 13 | Vulture | Vulture | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 met | advcl |
| 16 | hungrily | hungrily | ADV | _ | 15 looking | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 morsel | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 morsel | det |
| 19 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 morsel | amod |
| 20 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looking | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Lambikin | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Lambikin | punct |
| 27 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | parataxis |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 Lambikin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Jackal | a Vulture | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vulture=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the Vulture | before Jackal | at the tender morsel; hungrily property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at morsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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