Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 168
At last the Jackal came limping along, for all his sorry looks as sharp as a needle, and he too called out--
Who acts: sorry · What happens: come, limp, look, call out
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 (sorry), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Jackal | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Jackal | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Jackal | det |
| 4 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | limping | limp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 limping | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looks | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 looks | mark |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 sorry | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sorry | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looks | nsubj |
| 13 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 sharp | advmod |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looks | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 needle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 needle | det |
| 18 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sharp | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 called | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 called | nsubj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 called | advmod |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 called | compound:prt |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | at the last Jackal | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at jackal=Location | |||||
| 2 | limp | gerund | along property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | present | Jackal's sorry | sharp property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | participle | sorry | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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