Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 154
And Mr. Lambikin, curled up in his soft warm nest, replied:
What happens: curl up, reply · To what, where: Lambikin, soft warm nest
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: 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 | _ | 13 replied | cc |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lambikin | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 curled | punct |
| 5 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Lambikin | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 curled | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 nest | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nest | nmod:poss |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nest | amod |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nest | amod |
| 11 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 curled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl up | participle | Lambikin Mr. not said here | Lambikin's soft warm nest | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle · passive | Lambikin Mr. | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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