Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 140

And by-and-by he met a Tiger, and then a Wolf, and a Dog, and an Eagle, and all these, when they saw the tender little morsel, said: "Lambikin!

Who acts: Vulture, Wolf · What happens: meet, see, say · To what, where: Tiger, tender little morsel · 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 (Vulture, Wolf), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	37 said	mark
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 and	punct
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 met	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Tiger	det
10	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Wolf	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Wolf	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 Wolf	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Wolf	det
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 met	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Dog	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Dog	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Dog	det
19	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Wolf	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Eagle	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Eagle	cc
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Eagle	det
23	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 met	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 these	det:predet
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 saw	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 morsel	det
33	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 morsel	amod
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 morsel	amod
35	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 Lambikin	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 Lambikin	punct
40	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 said	parataxis
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Vulture	a Tiger	a Wolf and a Dog obl; a Eagle obl	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Co-Agent
2	see	past	Wolf	the tender little morsel		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morsel=Stimulus
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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