Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 172
And Lambikin, curled up in his snug little nest, replied gaily:
What happens: curl up, reply · To what, where: Lambikin, snug little 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 | _ | 2 Lambikin | cc |
| 2 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 curled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lambikin | punct |
| 4 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 curled | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 nest | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | snug | snug | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nest | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nest | amod |
| 10 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 curled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 curled | conj |
| 13 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 replied | xcomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 curled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl up | participle · passive | Lambikin | Lambikin's snug little nest | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | gaily property | vn respond-113 «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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